Our favorite books by Black authors Growing up as a young Black girl in the South, I saw positive representations of Black ...

The grave of renowned writer Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable of the Sower eerily envisioned fires consuming Los Angeles, remains intact at Altadena’s Mountain View Cemetery despite nearby ...

Over 30 years ago, Octavia ... Butler’s grasp of science and history and her ability to foresee shifts in American society with unsettling accuracy. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, written ...

Considered one of the first Black female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler’s body of work ... But if you’ve ever read her 1993 novel “Parable of the Sower,” you might think the ...

A period of personal reflection during the 2020 pandemic inspired her to open her own bookstore in her and Octavia E. Butler’s hometown. “I wanted to create something that didn’t exist ...

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.

Edward’s internal conflict over his appearance — and his jealousy toward Oswald — leads to a climax that feels more like a psychological thriller than a sci-fi parable. The final message of ...

Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler ... The grave of Butler, who died in 2006 at 58, is marked by a footstone etched with a quote from "Parable of the Sower," among her most famous novels ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week we take a look at past books that touch on subjects related ...

I don’t believe in prescience. I don’t believe, for instance, that when Octavia E. Butler began to write her 1993 novel, “Parable of the Sower,” she was working with a kind of second sight.

A reader shared the following Facebook post (archived) with the question: "Is this meme accurate about Octavia Butler's book 'Parable of the Sower' and predicting the recent LA fires with a new ...