As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...

The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...

Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of ...

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 speculative fiction classic, American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler, who ...

Although Butler passed away in 2006, her Parable of the Sower, " a speculative novel predicted the hell that's 2025.

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 ...

Octavia Butler Imagined LA Ravaged by Fires. Her Altadena Cemetery Survived ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires.

When Octavia Butler published 1993's Parable of the Sower - a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is "Make America Great ...