When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable of the ... where Jesus tells of a farmer who plants seeds in different types of soils, depicting human’s ability (or lack thereof) to receive ...

For readers of this journal, Octavia E. Butler literally needs no introduction ... OEB: And in Mind of My Mind and Wild Seed. What I was trying to do in "Bloodchild" was something different with the ...

Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles, consumed by fires, and last week, the cemetery where the iconic author is buried caught fire amid the ongoing wildfires impacting communities across Southern ...

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 ...

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 ...

(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) Science Fiction writer Octavia Butler poses for a photograph near some of her novels at University Book Store in Seattle, Wash., on Feb. 4, 2004. (Joshua ...