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 ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The fires stand as a monumental example of nature’s destructive potential when accelerated by human-caused climate change.

Considered one of the first Black female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler’s body of work could be described as made-up ...

The sign outside Lorenzo De Zavala Elementary School in Baytown.

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 had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch fire la ...

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 ...