Celebrated science fiction author and Pasadena native Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) tussled with the same environmental and social concerns as contemporary Angelenos. We know, because the self ...

Octavia Butler's novel Parable of the Sower — depicting a dystopian U.S. in 2024 — was published 30 years ago. Toshi Reagon's new musical retelling explores the web of past, present and future.

Octavia Butler’s tenth novel, “Parable of the Sower,” which was published in 1993, opens in Los Angeles in 2024. Global warming has brought drought and rising seawater. The middle class and ...

Octavia Butler inspires next generation of sci-fi writers. Butler rose to prominence in the traditionally white bastion of science fiction. She was the first to write about prominent Black ...

Science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler said the novels in her “Parable” series were meant to be cautionary. Her 1993 “Parable of the Sower” follows Lauren Oya Olamina, a teenager born ...

Octavia Butler, who was born Pasadena, California, in 1947, practically created her own genre — a singular type of science fiction that used the form to explore racism, ...

AMY GOODMAN: To talk more about Octavia Butler’s legacy, we’re joined by the writer and activist adrienne maree brown. She and the musician Toshi Reagon co-host Octavia’s Parables, a podcast ...

In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, earthquakes and an addictive pharmaceutical that fuels a destructive drug ...

The brisk sales of Octavia Butler’s ninth novel, “The Parable of the Sower” is especially notable since Butler, who died in 2006, was born in Pasadena. A middle school there bears her name.

Butler, Streeby wrote, was invested in “rethinking historiography and knowledge production.” She saved news clippings on global warming, modern-day slave labor, and the gap between the rich ...

Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for inspiration. In fact, the celebrated science fiction author denounced the idea of ...

My long-lost friend Octavia Butler wrote stories that have been read by hundreds of thousands of us, to great acclaim. She was a role model, an award-winner, and by most standards, a genius.