In 1992, while Octavia E. Butler was writing her novel Parable of the Sower, Los Angeles was hitting bottom. The acquittal of ...

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 ...

Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of fires, violence, racism, addiction, climate change, social inequality and an ...

Considered one of the first Black female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler’s body of work ... But if you’ve ever read her 1993 novel “Parable of the Sower,” you might think the ...

Discover how Octavia Butler's prescient novel 'Parable of the Sower' serves as a roadmap for survival in our chaotic times.

Rebecca Castillo is a video creator and special projects lead for Los Angeles Times’ High School Insider and other Public Affairs programs. A Southern California native, she is an alumna of Swarthmore ...

As wildfires scorched the Los Angeles area in January 2025, a number of Snopes readers and commentators (archived) pointed out similarities between current events and the plot of Octavia Butler's 1993 ...

Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

And the Fonz's response makes perfect sense if it is placed in the context of a culture that, in movies ... first book of Octavia Butler's Parable series, Parable of the Sower.

(AP) — 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 ...