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 ...
From Parable of the Sower to V for Vendetta , A Succinct Syllabus for the Revolution
Art has been behind — and indeed at the core of — every great revolution and social movement. There a mountain of important ...
Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler Predicted LA Fires In "Parable Of The Sower"
The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...
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Octavia Butler Wanted to Prevent Disaster in Los Angeles. Instead, She Predicted It
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 ...
Octavia Butler predicted fire disaster in Los Angeles in 1993 book 'Parable of the Sower'
Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...
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Octavia Butler Wanted to Prevent Disaster in Los Angeles. Instead, She Predicted It
She died in 2006, at the age of 58. “People say Butler is prophetic because she sets Parable of the Sower in 2024. She’s only off by a few months,” says Briana Whiteside, a college professor ...
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Writer Octavia Butler imagined an LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
The grave 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: “All that you touch, you change.
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Newsmakers: American Artist on Seeing the Patterns of the Climate Crisis as LA Fires Rage
"The future is not pretty and shiny. It has all the same problems that we have now." American Artist told ARTnews.