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

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

The Palisades and Eaton fires have already become among the five most destructive blazes on record in California, the New ...

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

Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

(AP) — 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 last ...

On her beloved typewriters, the literary legend mapped out a course for the future of the genre Stephen Kearse An Olivetti Studio 46 typewriter that belonged to Octavia E. Butler. As the author ...

Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for inspiration. In fact, the celebrated science fiction author denounced the idea of ...

Filmmaker Jordan Peele selects his favorite Black authors in ‘Out There Screaming,’ an anthology of stories. The book serves ...