Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait ... Even today, says Gerry Canavan, author of a 2016 Butler biography, “It just feels like … she predicts the future.” ...
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In Her Inventive and Prescient Stories, Octavia Butler Wrote Herself Into the Science Fiction CanonOctavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for inspiration. In fact, the celebrated science fiction author denounced the idea of waiting for one’s muse. “Habit is more dependable,” she advised. The ...
In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...
As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...
Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...
When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable of the Sower — a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is “Make America ...
ALTADENA, Calif. (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 ...
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