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 ...

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

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 ...

(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) Science Fiction writer Octavia Butler poses for a photograph near some of her novels at University Book Store in Seattle, Wash., on Feb. 4, 2004. (Joshua ...

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

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 ...

January 2 is National Science Fiction Day, and ESSENCE is paying tribute to one of the greatest sci-fi novelists of all time, Octavia Estelle Butler. Named after her mother Octavia Margaret Guy ...

Although Butler passed away in 2006, her Parable of the Sower, " a speculative novel predicted the hell that's 2025.

Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for inspiration ... Even today, says Gerry Canavan, author of a 2016 Butler biography, “It just feels like … she predicts the future.” ...

Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined ... woman author of science fiction, Butler grew up near Altadena, in Pasadena, and spent much of her life in Southern California before moving ...