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

When Octavia ... that Butler considered herself a “HistoFuturist,” who exposed problematic patterns of the past, while creating strong characters who championed change to inspire future ...

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...

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?

Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait ... Even today, says Gerry Canavan, author of a 2016 Butler biography, “It just feels like … she predicts the future.” Born an only child in Pasadena ...

Butler's work has resurfaced for its depictions of the future seemingly coming to life. The grave of Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable Of The Sower imagined fires engulfing Los Angeles ...

ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia ... (Butler, who died before Donald Trump’s political rise, heard the phrase used by President Ronald Reagan). “She seems to have seen the real ...

January 2 is National Science Fiction Day, and ESSENCE is paying tribute to one of the greatest sci-fi novelists of all time, Octavia ... future through a Black lens.” In celebrating Butler ...

Last June, Pasadena, California — about 11 miles from downtown Los Angeles — decreed that June 22 was Octavia E. Butler Day ... ruins of the past to see the future.” So what do we know ...

Before the fire, Pasadena — where Butler grew up — was a beautiful mountain area made up of working class hikers, horses and cowboys, and small businesses like Octavia’s Bookshelf ...