Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles ... co-editor of Butler’s work for the Library of America, in an interview with the Associated Press in 2020. “It’s hard not to ...

For readers of this journal, Octavia E. Butler literally needs no introduction. Her exquisite, insightful works—especially the three XENOGENESIS novels, (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago) and her ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before the fire, Pasadena — where Butler grew up — was a beautiful mountain area made up of working class hikers, horses and cowboys, and small businesses like Octavia’s Bookshelf ...

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 ...

As wildfires scorched the Los Angeles area in January 2025, a number of Snopes readers and commentators (archived) pointed out similarities between current events and the plot of Octavia Butler's 1993 ...

Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles ... co-editor of Butler’s work for the Library of America, in an interview with the Associated Press in 2020. “It’s hard not to ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel ... creative writing professor Tananarive Due says in a Zoom interview. “So they say, to be a prophet, you just have ...