Books can turn up in your life when you need them. What does the resurgent popularity of a dystopian novel say about modern ...

Octavia Butler, who died in 2006, once said of "The Parable of the Sower," her celebrated 1993 novel about a woman who feels others' pain, "I began writing the book with the thought that maybe ...

Octavia Butler's prescient novels offer a roadmap for survival in our changing world. Discover how her Afrofuturist works inspire hope and action.

Octavia E. Butler with her last book, Fledgling. The writer died in 2006, before many of her prescient predictions were to come true. It is not just the accuracy of Butler’s books that continues ...

Roman had invented a game about people trying to flee a town – like the characters in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. In the book, the protagonists band together to survive in a time of great ...