In 1992, while Octavia E. Butler was writing her novel Parable of the Sower, Los Angeles was hitting bottom. The acquittal of ...

Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due are leaning into Butler’s Afrofuturistic vision to save hearts “in the midst of stress.” By Aaron Foley In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler ...

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Rebecca Castillo is a video creator and special projects lead for Los Angeles Times’ High School Insider and other Public Affairs programs. A Southern California native, she is an alumna of Swarthmore ...

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 Great ...

Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles ... Her grave is marked by a quote from her celebrated novel Parable of the Sower: “All that you touch, you change.

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. Butler, who ...

Considered one of the first Black female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler’s body of work could ... But if you’ve ever read her 1993 novel “Parable of the Sower,” you might think ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025? They showed up. That political chaos she ...

“People may refer to Butler’s story as this dystopian novel and it is ... and small businesses like Octavia’s Bookshelf, a Black-owned bookstore. Its owner, Nikki High, opened the store ...

Considered one of the first Black female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler’s body of work could ... But if you’ve ever read her 1993 novel “Parable of the Sower,” you might think ...