Why it’s time for Octavia E. Butler and the ‘Parables’ at The Huntington
In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, ...
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Octavia Butler Wanted to Prevent Disaster in Los Angeles. Instead, She Predicted It
When Octavia Butler published 1993's Parable of the Sower - a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is "Make America Great ...
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Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena ...
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In Octavia Butler’s Pasadena, readers pick up visionary novel and find lessons in post-fire LA
Grant Hoskins noticed the uptick of people coming in for a certain book after the fires. The Vroman’s bookseller saw all sorts of readers, teens, college students, parents and grandparents ...