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Octavia Butler's 1993 Novel Predicted The LA Fires ...And Trump
Although Butler passed away in 2006, her Parable of the Sower, " a speculative novel predicted the hell that's 2025.
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Author’s story of coping after a wildfire resonates with community affected by latest L.A.-area fires
On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.
The Eerie Prescience of Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower'
As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...
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Continuing Requiem for A Cafe, or, Uses of Patriarchy
Lauren Oya Olamina, in Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler ... But here it is: In order to follow the dream, instead of slavishly following the business rule book, we followed it ...
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Generations of Black families built their lives in Altadena. Then the Eaton Fire swept through LA
The Mountain View Cemetery is the resting place of abolitionist and educator Ellen Garrison Jackson Clark and renowned author Octavia Butler ... "We organized in order to get a Black member ...