We look at the world of BookTok and the book clubs you'll wish you knew about sooner. Plus, the owner of Octavia’s Bookshelf ...

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After realizing her business survived the Eaton Fire, Nikki High, opened her bookstore’s shelfs for donations and offered ...

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

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

When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable of the Sower — a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is “Make America ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A reader shared the following Facebook post (archived) with the question: "Is this meme accurate about Octavia Butler's book 'Parable of the Sower' and predicting the recent LA fires with a new ...