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

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

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

These climate-fueled fires have also drawn renewed attention to the writing of the late Octavia Butler, who broke ground as a Black woman science fiction writer, and her novel, The Parable of the ...

ALTADENA — 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 catch fire la ...

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 ...

"I'd never experienced an excitement like that," Gerard Butler says of landing his first acting job Before Gerard Butler turned to acting, he studied to become a lawyer. Butler, 55, recently sat ...

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 ...