Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have ...

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

Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...

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

The phrase, which gained momentum in 2020, has resurfaced, in part because it can seem like Octavia Butler was more than a fiction writer. By Veronica Chambers This article is also a weekly ...

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 ...

The grave of Octavia Butler, whose novel "Parable Of The Sower" predicted fires engulfing Los Angeles, still stands at a ...

As wildfires scorched the Los Angeles area in January 2025, a number of Snopes readers and commentators (archived) pointed out similarities between current events and the plot of Octavia Butler's ...

ALTADENA, Calif. -- 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 ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The fires stand as a monumental example of nature’s destructive potential when accelerated by ...