Smithsonian Magazine28d
In Her Inventive and Prescient Stories, Octavia Butler Wrote Herself Into the Science Fiction Canon
Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for ... submit to alien captors rather than resist them. In books such as Dawn and Kindred, Butler showed the ways that gender, race and ...
Black Enterprise15d
The Grave Of Octavia Butler, Writer Who Once Prophesied LA Fires, Still Stands In Altadena Cemetery
Butler's work has resurfaced for its depictions of the future seemingly coming to life. The grave of Octavia Butler ... Butler’s reading a warning. The book’s 1998 sequel, Parable of the ...
Octavia Butler predicted fire disaster in Los Angeles in 1993 book 'Parable of the Sower'
Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...
Rolling Stone15d
Octavia Butler Wanted to Prevent Disaster in Los Angeles. Instead, She Predicted It
When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable ... Butler’s work in the Eighties when she read Kindred, Butler’s breakout book from 1979, for the first time. “I was hooked,” she says.
Newsday16d
Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
Science Fiction writer Octavia Butler poses for a photograph near some of her novels at University Book Store in Seattle ... part adaptation of her novel “Kindred” in 2022 and numerous ...