Many have called Butler a prophet for her futuristic prediction on L.A. fires in her novel 'Parable of the Sower,' but her ...

Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, "Parable of the Sower" and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have ...

The grave of Octavia Butler, whose novel "Parable Of The Sower" predicted fires engulfing Los Angeles, still stands at a ...

2 1/2 stars (out of 4); Neva Gronert, Parker “Kindred,” by Octavia Butler (Beacon Press, 2003) This ground-breaking speculative fiction is by one of our first widely popular African-American ...

Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for ... In books such as Dawn and Kindred, Butler showed the ways that gender, race and sexuality inform visions of the future and past.

It was worth the wait. My two favorite books were both fiction: Octavia Butler’s “Kindred,” published in 1979, and George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” from 1872. Butler, a Pasadena native ...

This month we are discussing “Kindred” by Octavia E. Butler. Monday, Jan. 27 Children: Preschool Storytime presented by Desiree Magnant at the Marion library from 10-11 a.m. Regular scheduled ...

It’s very devastating. AMY GOODMAN: And can you talk about the community of Altadena, the historically Black community, where Octavia Butler is buried? There’s a lovely, amazing Black-owned ...