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

ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world ...

Considered one of the first Black female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler’s body of work could be described as made-up, dystopian tales of an alternate universe. You know, on some “War of the ...

Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles, consumed by fires, and last week, the cemetery where the iconic author is buried caught fire amid the ongoing wildfires impacting communities across Southern ...

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

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The fires stand as a monumental example of nature’s destructive potential when accelerated by human-caused climate change.

Her “Parable of the Sower” has been cited for anticipating a world — and a Los Angeles — wracked by climate change, racism and economic disparity.

ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch fire la ...