The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...

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 ...

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 ...

Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time 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 ...

And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...

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.

The grave of renowned writer Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable of the Sower eerily envisioned fires consuming Los Angeles, ...

Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ...