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

“Parable of the Sower… isn’t prophecy ... ‘This sounds like a Octavia Butler movie.’” As a result, Whiteside loaded up her camera phone and began creating content that was different ...

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

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

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The fires stand as a monumental example of nature’s destructive potential when accelerated by ...

Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler ... 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 ...

Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have ...

Many have called the science fiction author a prophet for her futuristic prediction on L.A. fires in her novel 'Parable of the Sower,' but her fans see a deeper meaning ...

Her “Parable of the Sower” has been cited for anticipating a world — and a Los Angeles — wracked by climate change, racism and economic disparity.