As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...

Although Butler passed away in 2006, her Parable of the Sower, " a speculative novel predicted the hell that's 2025.

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...

Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...

Octavia’s Bookshelf, which survived the Eaton Fire, has become a haven and a hub for mutual aid resources and support.

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.

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 ...

Named after her mother Octavia Margaret Guy and her grandmother Estella, Butler grew up extremely shy and turned to books and reading for comfort. Butler would go on to become a prolific writer ...

The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when ...

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 ...