ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world ...

The grave of renowned writer Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable of the Sower eerily envisioned fires consuming Los Angeles, ...

Octavia’s Bookshelf, which survived the Eaton Fire, has become a haven and a hub for mutual aid resources and support.

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

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

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

Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel 'Parable of the Sower' set in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles describes a city set aflame. In ...

The death toll from the Los Angeles-area wildfires is 24 people, according to the LA County Medical Examiner. The medical ...

Strong winds over the next day will create dangerous conditions as several major wildfires continue to burn in the Los ...

Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had ... University and co-editor of Butler's work for the Library of America, told the AP in 2020. ''It's hard not to read the books and think ‘How did ...