The grave of Octavia Butler, whose novel "Parable Of The Sower" predicted fires engulfing Los Angeles, still stands at a ...

2 1/2 stars (out of 4); Neva Gronert, Parker “Kindred,” by Octavia Butler (Beacon Press, 2003) This ground-breaking speculative fiction is by one of our first widely popular African-American ...

With little fanfare, Butler became the author by whom fans evaluate success in the genre. Unfortunately, she passed away unexpectedly, well before what might have been expected. The protagonist of ...