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

In their new show at Pioneer Works in New York, American Artist reflects on Butler’s most famous series of novels and her ...

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

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

Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

The late historian and author examines the relationship between natural disasters and social injustice and how Los Angeles is viewed in the media. “Parable of the Sower,” by Octavia E. Butler ...

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

ALTADENA, Calif. -- 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 ...

In the wake of the devastating fires in Los Angeles, many people are referencing the work of the science fiction writer Octavia Butler. Butler, who grew up in Pasadena, was the daughter of a ...

The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...

The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when ...