Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have ...

But they’ll also be looking at what one Altadena woman who frequently hiked the trail from the Pinecrest Gate on the Eaton ...

As Los Angeles burns, the writer Rosecrans Baldwin hears echoes of our furious, compassionate late intellectual.

Many have called Butler a prophet for her futuristic prediction on L.A. fires in her novel 'Parable of the Sower,' but her ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The fires stand as a monumental example of nature’s destructive potential when accelerated by ...

Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler ... and co-editor of Butler’s work for the Library of America, told the AP in 2020. “It’s hard not to read the books and think ‘How did she know?’” ...

“It’s hard not to read the books and think ‘How did she know?’” Science Fiction writer Octavia Butler poses for a photograph near some of her novels at University Book Store in ...