The Eerie Prescience of Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower'
As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...
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In Her Inventive and Prescient Stories, Octavia Butler Wrote Herself Into the Science Fiction Canon
Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait ... to alien captors rather than resist them. In books such as Dawn and Kindred, Butler showed the ways that gender, race and sexuality inform ...
Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler Predicted LA Fires In "Parable Of The Sower"
The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...
Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have ...
Beloved Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler’s Gravesite Survived Los Angeles Fire
In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...
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Writer Octavia Butler imagined an LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
ALTADENA — 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 fire la ...
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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. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried ...