From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

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

1 FOURTH WING (Red Tower, $20.99). By Rebecca Yarros. A young woman competes to secure a spot at an elite war college for ...

Learning from Silence," a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.

In honor of Groundhog Day, Omaha Public Library staff members suggest their favorite books featuring time loops and other ...

In partnership with SPL, the KUOW Book Club will read "You Are Here" in April, which is National Poetry Month.

As America faces growing uncertainty in 2025, certain books resonate more than ever, offering valuable lessons on power, ...

Japanese YouTuber Uketsu is best known for wearing a white papier-mache mask and making very surreal content. Now, he’s a ...

In their new show at Pioneer Works in New York, American Artist reflects on Butler’s most famous series of novels and her ...

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

And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...

"What will this do to fragment the population?" wonders Natalie Daily, the librarian at Octavia E. Butler Magnet School, which is part of PUSD. "What is this going to do to our enrollment? [That seems ...