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

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

When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable of the Sower — a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is “Make America ...

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

Butler's work has resurfaced for its depictions of the future seemingly coming to life. The grave of Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable Of The Sower imagined fires engulfing Los Angeles ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025?

ALTADENA, Calif. — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch ...

Octavia Butler Imagined LA Ravaged by Fires. Her Altadena Cemetery Survived ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires.

ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch fire la ...

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