Discover how Octavia Butler's prescient novel 'Parable of the Sower' serves as a roadmap for survival in our chaotic times.

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Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter ... “Parable of the Sower,” by Octavia E. Butler: Speculative fiction set largely in a future (now present) Southern California ravaged by ...

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Octavia Butler grew up in Pasadena with her widowed mother, who worked as a maid for wealthy white families. The book’s fictional community of Robledo is similar to Altadena, neighboring Pasadena.

ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined ... replete with damaged structures. Butler’s prescience predates this year. In the book’s sequel, “Parable of the Talents ...

The inspiration behind Octavia’s Bookshelf stemmed from selling books that High felt Butler would have had in her own home. There was the wall of classics, featuring Black writers from Zora ...

When Octavia Butler ... wanted to honor Butler who is often overlooked,” High first encountered Butler’s work in the Eighties when she read Kindred, Butler’s breakout book from 1979, for ...