The Eerie Prescience of Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower'
As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...
Beloved Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler’s Gravesite Survived Los Angeles Fire
In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...
Octavia Butler predicted fire disaster in Los Angeles in 1993 book 'Parable of the Sower'
Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...
Octavia Butler Wanted to Prevent Disaster in Los Angeles. Instead, She Predicted It
Many have called the science fiction author a prophet for her futuristic prediction on L.A. fires in her novel 'Parable of ...
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | In scorched LA, the burning truth of Octavia Butler’s sci-fi
The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when ...
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Writer Octavia Butler imagined an LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
ALTADENA — 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 la ...
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Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
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 week but ...