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Are We Living in a Dystopia?
The sci-fi series “Silo” is the latest in a string of popular post-apocalyptic dramas with an increasingly uncanny resonance.
As California Burns, ‘Octavia Tried to Tell Us’ Has New Meaning
The phrase, which gained momentum in 2020, has resurfaced, in part because it can seem like Octavia Butler was more than a ...
Opinion: Los Angeles and the literature of the apocalypse
Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.
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Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay
In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our ...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any other way?"
The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth ...
Octavia Butler Wanted to Prevent Disaster in Los Angeles. Instead, She Predicted It
Many have called Butler a prophet for her futuristic prediction on L.A. fires in her novel 'Parable of the Sower,' but her ...
The Grave Of Octavia Butler, Writer Who Once Prophesied LA Fires, Still Stands In Altadena Cemetery
The grave of Octavia Butler, whose novel "Parable Of The Sower" predicted fires engulfing Los Angeles, still stands at a ...
Writer Octavia Butler imagined an LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
Her “Parable of the Sower” has been cited for anticipating a world — and a Los Angeles — wracked by climate change, racism ...
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 ...
A guide to Southern California’s 80 independent bookstores
I wanted to put together a quick list of Southern California independent bookstores. But I found, even just writing down ...