Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world wracked by climate change, racism and ...

Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for inspiration ... In books such as Dawn and Kindred, Butler showed the ways that gender, race and sexuality inform visions of the future and past.

Octavia E. Butler: I do, but I tend to get angry ... OEB: The only places I am writing about slavery is where I actually say so. SWP: As in Kindred. OEB: And in Mind of My Mind and Wild Seed. What I ...

(AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had ... part adaptation of her novel “Kindred” in 2022 and numerous other projects are planned. In 2000, Butler considered the whole idea ...

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 ...