Iyer shared how it transformed his life at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, ay community devastated by the deadly Eaton Fire earlier ...
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 ...
You never expect it. As a journalist covering climate disasters and other news, I have always been on the outside, reporting ...
The grave of renowned writer Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable of the Sower eerily envisioned fires consuming Los Angeles, ...
Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles, consumed by fires, and last week, the cemetery where the iconic author is buried caught fire amid the ongoing wildfires impacting communities across Southern ...
Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ... is marked by a footstone etched with a quote from "Parable of the Sower," among her most famous novels: "All that you touch ...
As wildfires scorched the Los Angeles area in January 2025, a number of Snopes readers and commentators (archived) pointed out similarities between current events and the plot of Octavia Butler's 1993 ...
A reader shared the following Facebook post (archived) with the question: "Is this meme accurate about Octavia Butler's book 'Parable of the Sower' and predicting the recent LA fires with a new ...