Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles ... When asked about the grim scenarios in her Parable series, she once said, “I didn’t make up the problems. All I did was look ...

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.

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The importance of Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower continues to crystalize, as Butler’s prescient imagining of urban ...

For readers of this journal, Octavia E. Butler literally needs no introduction ... For example, somebody writing a review of Parable of the Sower said, "Oh, the Earthseed religion is just warmed over ...

The first on-screen adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's work ... prescient dystopias (see: Parable of the Sower), centuries-spanning sci-fi epics (see: the Patternist series), and brand-new takes ...

a teenager with a unique gift must lead humanity in a battle against extinction. An adaptation of the first book in Octavia E. Butler’s acclaimed science fiction odyssey.