Octavia Estelle Butler was the daughter of a shoeshine man ... is a struggling Black writer who is setting up her new house with her white husband, Kevin, when she unexpectedly travels through ...

Influential writer Octavia Butler’s literary legend may spread to a new type of fanbase with the introduction of a graphic novel adaptation of “Parable of the Talents,” originally published ...

Butler’s fiction has recently inspired graphic novels, children’s books, a Netflix limited series, and a highly anticipated opera. Also in 2020, NASA announced the Octavia E. Butler Landing on ...