Japanese YouTuber Uketsu is best known for wearing a white papier-mache mask and making very surreal content. Now, he’s a ...

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

showcasing Butler’s talent for blending intricate character development with profound philosophical questions. Finish story here; 8 Essential Octavia Butler Books Everyone Should Read.

In their new show at Pioneer Works in New York, American Artist reflects on Butler’s most famous series of novels and her ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter ... “Parable of the Sower,” by Octavia E. Butler: Speculative fiction set largely in a future (now present) Southern California ravaged by ...

Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los ... how countries could fall into autocracy and read books about Nazi Germany. Butler remembered growing up during the Cold War in the ...

ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ... diary entry in the book, referring to a small fire that presages the destructive fires to come in the novel.

From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ...