Many have called Butler a prophet for her futuristic prediction on L.A. fires in her novel 'Parable of the Sower,' but her ...
Her “Parable of the Sower” has been cited for anticipating a world — and a Los Angeles — wracked by climate change, racism ...
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The grave of Octavia Butler, whose novel "Parable Of The Sower" predicted fires engulfing Los Angeles, still stands at a ...
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In Her Inventive and Prescient Stories, Octavia Butler Wrote Herself Into the Science Fiction CanonThroughout her years of obscurity, Butler rose daily to write before menial jobs as a potato chip inspector, dishwasher and ...
From raging fires to a politician promising to Make America Great Again - Octavia Butler's novels are eerily prophetic.
The Palisades and Eaton fires have already become among the five most destructive blazes on record in California, the New ...
Octavia Butler, who died in 2006, once said of "The Parable of the Sower," her celebrated 1993 novel about a woman who feels others' pain, "I began writing the book with the thought that maybe ...
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