The phrase, which gained momentum in 2020, has resurfaced, in part because it can seem like Octavia Butler was more than a ...

For those who did want to contemplate it, the public reckoning follows a now-familiar, grim pattern: “Climate change will ...

Filmmaker Jordan Peele selects his favorite Black authors in ‘Out There Screaming,’ an anthology of stories. The book serves ...

The sci-fi series “Silo” is the latest in a string of popular post-apocalyptic dramas with an increasingly uncanny resonance.

In Altadena, California, a community rallies together to respond to deadly wildfires, despite widespread property loss.

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

Many have called Butler a prophet for her futuristic prediction on L.A. fires in her novel 'Parable of the Sower,' but her ...

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

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 ...

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

Growing up, Butler was shy ... when people got a hold of Parable of the Sower that people were like ‘Oh, Shit, who is this person?’” The inspiration behind Octavia’s Bookshelf stemmed ...