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 ...

You never expect it. As a journalist covering climate disasters and other news, I have always been on the outside, reporting ...

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

The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.

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 ...

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

The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when ...

Workers at the Mountain View cemetery had unique concerns the night the Eaton fire broke out. The 55-acre expanse may also have spared some homes from the flames.

Octavia E. Butler and Mike Davis are just some of the Angelenos whose books can help us understand L.A.'s fires, plus Kristin ...