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? They showed up. That political chaos she ...
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.