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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia ... of Butler, who died in 2006 at 58, is marked by a footstone etched with a quote from “Parable of the Sower,” among her most famous novels ...

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 ...

But before we totally dismiss the Fonz, we must admit that his view of the situation is actually not far from the one we find in the first book of Octavia Butler's Parable series, Parable of the ...

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 ...