Books can turn up in your life when you need them. What does the resurgent popularity of a dystopian novel say about modern ...

Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles ... in American society with unsettling accuracy. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, written in 1993 and set in a post-apocalyptic Los ...

The LA central library’s Octavia Lab provides free access to recording studios, 3D printers, video editing software. All you ...

the protagonist of Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower Photo: Dan Bradica; Courtesy of American Artist and Pioneer Works Octavia E. Butler’s writing has never been more relevant.

The works of Afrofuturist author Octavia Butler seem to be chillingly prescient ... and Afrofuturism” class at UCLA, calls “Parable of the Sower,” an admittedly “difficult” book ...

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 1993 ...

Altadena resident Nikki High opened Octavia’s Bookshelf in February 2023, inspired by the author. “People miss the blueprint of hope [Butler] wrote in Parable of the Sower.” It was with that ...

(AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by ... is marked by a footstone etched with a quote from “Parable of the Sower,” among her most famous novels: “All ...

The brisk sales of Octavia Butler’s ninth novel, “The Parable of the Sower” is especially notable since Butler, who died in 2006, was born in Pasadena. A middle school there bears her name.