Jan 17, 2025 · As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its sequel.

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, …

Jan 17, 2025 · 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 …

Jan 12, 2024 · The smoke-choked air from fire gone wild, the cresting rivers and rising seas, the sweltering heat and receding lakes, the melting away of civil society and political stability, the …

Jan 23, 2025 · Last Updated on January 28, 2025 by BVN. Overview: Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel, Parable of the Sower, described a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles in which devastating …

Jan 15, 2025 · The fire’s eerie proximity to Butler’s final resting place has reignited conversations about her uncanny predictions.

Jan 15, 2025 · ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and …

Jun 19, 2024 · We are paying tribute to the visionary sci-fi writer Octavia Butler by exploring the power of worldbuilding through sound. Seattle native and conceptual artist Mia Imani …

We talk about visions of climate apocalypse and how Butler, through no fault of her own, might have created a hegemonic vision of a warmed earth, one that has become almost cliche in the …

To this end, I contend that Octavia Butler's prophetic diptych Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) counters the colonising project of promising pessimism and …