Many have called Butler a prophet for her futuristic prediction on L.A. fires in her novel 'Parable of the Sower,' but her ...

ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena ...

Her “Parable of the Sower” has been cited for anticipating a world — and a Los Angeles — wracked by climate change, racism ...

The grave of Octavia Butler, whose novel "Parable Of The Sower" predicted fires engulfing Los Angeles, still stands at a ...

Throughout her years of obscurity, Butler rose daily to write before menial jobs as a potato chip inspector, dishwasher and ...

For National Science Fiction Day, ESSENCE is paying tribute to one of the greatest sci-fi novelists of all time, Octavia ...

Last June, Pasadena, California — about 11 miles from downtown Los Angeles — decreed that June 22 was Octavia E. Butler Day, in honor of the science fiction writer born in the city on that ...

It was worth the wait. My two favorite books were both fiction: Octavia Butler’s “Kindred,” published in 1979, and George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” from 1872. Butler, a Pasadena native ...

2 1/2 stars (out of 4); Neva Gronert, Parker “Kindred,” by Octavia Butler (Beacon Press, 2003) This ground-breaking speculative fiction is by one of our first widely popular African-American ...

Octavia Butler Wrote Herself Into the Science Fiction Canon Los Angeles surrounded by out-of-control wildfires; at least 5 dead I've worked at Costco for 19 years. Here are the 10 best things I ...