Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world wracked by climate change, racism and ...

We continue our coverage of the devastating wildfires in Southern California, which have killed at least 24 people as of Monday. Some 150,000 more have been forced to evacuate their homes and over 40, ...

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

The Eaton fire ravaged a historic Black community in Altadena. Now, people are using the words of one of its most famous ...

When the Eaton Fire erupted, the Mountain View Cemetery and Mortuary in Altadena faced a rare struggle: racing to save ...

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

The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic Black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.

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

The phrase, which gained momentum in 2020, has resurfaced, in part because it can seem like Octavia Butler was more than a ...

ALTADENA, Calif. — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch ...

Octavia Butler Imagined LA Ravaged by Fires. Her Altadena Cemetery Survived ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires.