Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The novelist and essayist addressed about 80 people Tuesday at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, the very community devastated ...

From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

(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 ...

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The fires stand as a monumental example of nature’s destructive potential when accelerated by human-caused climate change.