Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles ... in American society with unsettling accuracy. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, written in 1993 and set in a post-apocalyptic Los ...
In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 speculative fiction classic, American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler, who ...
Considered one of the first Black female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler’s body ... But if you’ve ever read her 1993 novel “Parable of the Sower,” you might think the book is ...
In 1992, while Octavia E. Butler was writing her novel Parable of the Sower, Los Angeles was hitting bottom. The acquittal of ...
Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due are leaning into Butler’s Afrofuturistic vision to save hearts “in the midst of stress.” By Aaron Foley In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler ...
Rebecca Castillo is a video creator and special projects lead for Los Angeles Times’ High School Insider and other Public Affairs programs. A Southern California native, she is an alumna of Swarthmore ...
As wildfires scorched the Los Angeles area in January 2025, a number of Snopes readers and commentators (archived) pointed out similarities between current events and the plot of Octavia Butler's 1993 ...
Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles ... in American society with unsettling accuracy. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, written in 1993 and set in a post-apocalyptic Los ...
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler ... chaos she wrote about in “Parable of the Sower”? Currently trending. Indeed, “Sower,” Butler’s 1993 tale of a ...
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