A period of personal reflection during the 2020 pandemic inspired her to open her own bookstore in her and Octavia E. Butler’s hometown. “I wanted to create something that didn’t exist ...

In their new show at Pioneer Works in New York, American Artist reflects on Butler’s most famous series of novels and her ...

The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...

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Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel 'Parable of the Sower' set in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles describes a city set aflame. In the book, an entry marked February 1, 2025, reads: "We had a fire today." ...

From Cory Doctorow to Nnedi Okorafor and from fancy space opera to elegantly written visions of a flooded future world, there is plenty of great science fiction published this month ...

Hollywood pays tribute to the irreplaceable artifacts and cultural touchstones that were destroyed, from the ‘Wizard of Oz’ ...

The fire has upended a cherished way of life in the eclectic community ... a local park is named after him. In the “E” is Octavia E. Butler, a science fiction author buried at an Altadena ...