Octavia Butler’s works are more than just stories; they are profound explorations of humanity’s deepest fears, desires, and ...

As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...

Octavia E. Butler and Mike Davis are just some of the Angelenos whose books can help us understand L.A.'s fires, plus Kristin ...

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...

"Books have the opportunity to bury themselves ... with renowned director Gina Prince-Bythewood at the helm. Octavia Butler, who died in 2006, once said of "The Parable of the Sower," her ...

Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...

For National Science Fiction Day, ESSENCE is paying tribute to one of the greatest sci-fi novelists of all time, Octavia ...

The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when ...

Many have called the science fiction author a prophet for her futuristic prediction on L.A. fires in her novel 'Parable of ...

“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 ...