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 ...
Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler Predicted LA Fires In "Parable Of The Sower"
The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...
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 ...
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What We Can Learn From Octavia Butler in Times of Chaos
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ...
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 ...
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Octavia Butler's 1993 Novel Predicted The LA Fires ...And Trump
Although Butler passed away in 2006, her Parable of the Sower, " a speculative novel predicted the hell that's 2025.
Opinion: Los Angeles and the literature of the apocalypse
Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.
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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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American Artist builds on author Octavia Butler’s prescient, dystopian vision
In their new show at Pioneer Works in New York, American Artist reflects on Butler’s most famous series of novels and her ...