And spreading just as fast are quotes about how winds and fire menace ... Black science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler, a Pasadena native who’s buried in an Altadena cemetery that was ...

After the wildfires erupted in L.A. last week, many turned to Octavia E ... and climate change. Much of Altadena has now burned down; even the cemetery where Butler is buried caught fire.

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ...

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 ...

When Octavia ... that Butler considered herself a “HistoFuturist,” who exposed problematic patterns of the past, while creating strong characters who championed change to inspire future ...

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. The ...

The grave of Butler, who died in 2006 at 58, is marked by a footstone etched with a quote from “Parable of the Sower,” among her most famous novels: “All that you touch, you change. All that ...

The fires within Parable of the Sower stem from a combination of climate change and ... inspiration behind Octavia’s Bookshelf stemmed from selling books that High felt Butler would have had ...

Butler's work has resurfaced for its depictions of the future seemingly coming to life. The grave of Octavia Butler ... However, she encouraged hope to change the narrative through her 2000 ...

Decades ago, the writer Octavia ... you change. All that you change, changes you." Recommended Videos Since the fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Butler works have ...

ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia ... and other Butler works have been cited for anticipating a world — and, particularly, a Los Angeles — wracked by climate change, racism and ...