As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...

“Parable of the Sower… isn’t prophecy ... ‘This sounds like a Octavia Butler movie.’” As a result, Whiteside loaded up her camera phone and began creating content that was different ...

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

Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles, consumed by fires, and last week, the cemetery where the iconic author is buried caught fire amid the ongoing wildfires impacting communities across Southern ...

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The fires stand as a monumental example of nature’s destructive potential when accelerated by ...

Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler ... The grave of Butler, who died in 2006 at 58, is marked by a footstone etched with a quote from "Parable of the Sower," among her most famous novels ...

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

The grave of Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable Of The Sower imagined fires engulfing Los Angeles, still stands at a local cemetery in Altadena. Butler’s work has gained new traction after ...

Over 30 years ago, Octavia ... Butler’s grasp of science and history and her ability to foresee shifts in American society with unsettling accuracy. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, written ...