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

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

Considered one of the first Black female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler’s body of work could be described as made-up ...

When Octavia Butler published ... lived in the same city." Reading Butler became an obsession, but as her love for the author's prose grew, she found it hard to find like-minded fans of the ...

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 speculative fiction classic, American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler, who ...

(AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had ... University and co-editor of Butler’s work for the Library of America, told the AP in 2020. “It’s hard not to read the books and ...

Before the fire, Pasadena — where Butler grew up — was a beautiful mountain area made up of working class hikers, horses and cowboys, and small businesses like Octavia’s Bookshelf ...