Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of ...

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

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 did catch ...

Last June, Pasadena, California — about 11 miles from downtown Los Angeles — decreed that June 22 was Octavia E. Butler Day, in honor of the science fiction writer born in the city on that ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025?

The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when ...