Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...
As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...
Octavia’s Bookshelf, opened in Pasadena in 2023 and is functioning as a donation center in the fire's wake. Butler won numerous awards in her lifetime and her stature has risen steadily since ...
The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...
The phrase, which gained momentum in 2020, has resurfaced, in part because it can seem like Octavia Butler was more than a ...
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In Her Inventive and Prescient Stories, Octavia Butler Wrote Herself Into the Science Fiction CanonOctavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for inspiration ... though she won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, the highest honors in science fiction. While her output began to slow, her reputation ...
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On National Science Fiction Day, We Salute Octavia ButlerNamed after her mother Octavia Margaret Guy and her grandmother Estella, Butler grew up extremely shy ... woman to be awarded the Hugo and Nebula Awards from the World Science Fiction Society ...
Before the fire, Pasadena — where Butler grew up — was a beautiful mountain area made up of working class hikers, horses and cowboys, and small businesses like Octavia’s Bookshelf ...
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The fires stand as a monumental example of nature’s destructive potential when accelerated by ...
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