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

Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for inspiration ... Twelve published novels and two short story collections resulted from this steadfast dedication. Butler found her stride ...

Loss, love and a sense of belonging — survivors, evacuees, heroes and allies weigh in on what the fires revealed ...

All that you touch you change.  All that you change changes you.  The only lasting truth is change.  God is change. –Lauren ...

Others cite Octavia Butler, whose “Parable of the Sower ... the fallout from these fires will ultimately extend Davis’s story or mark a break in it. Many homes destroyed in the Palisades ...

From Cory Doctorow to Nnedi Okorafor and from fancy space opera to elegantly written visions of a flooded future world, there ...

In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our ...

Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning ... “Kitchen Confidential” by Anthony Bourdain to Octavia Butler’s dystopian novel “Parable of the Sower ...