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 ...

The grave of renowned writer Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable of the Sower eerily envisioned fires consuming Los Angeles, remains intact at Altadena’s Mountain View Cemetery despite nearby ...

Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of fires, violence, racism, addiction, climate change, social inequality and ...

An Altadena woman’s bookstore made it through the Eaton Fire but was still transformed by the disaster, turning into a resource hub, and healing haven for the community. Octavia’s Bookshelf is ...

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Octavia Butler's novel "Parable of the Sower" is gaining attention for its eerily accurate predictions of the current societal collapse. The book, which was written in 1993, explores a future where a ...

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