Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science ...
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In Her Inventive and Prescient Stories, Octavia Butler Wrote Herself Into the Science Fiction Canon
Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for ... Even today, says Gerry Canavan, author of a 2016 Butler biography, “It just feels like … she predicts the future.” Born an only child in ...
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Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler Predicted LA Fires In "Parable Of The Sower"
Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles, consumed by fires, and last week, the cemetery where the iconic author is buried caught fire amid the ongoing wildfires impacting ...
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The Eerie Prescience of Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower'
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 ...
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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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Writer Octavia Butler imagined an LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch fire la ...