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

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

Under the arched wooden ceilings of Berkeley’s newest bookshop, you’ll find a rolling library ladder, velvet green couches, and yes, lots of books — but also a wine dispenser wedged between the ...

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

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

Bookshelves have been replaced with food and toiletries, bins with packs of toothbrushes and other items were piled high in ...

The phrase, which gained momentum in 2020, has resurfaced, in part because it can seem like Octavia Butler was more than a ...

The sci-fi series “Silo” is the latest in a string of popular post-apocalyptic dramas with an increasingly uncanny resonance.

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

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...