As California Burns, ‘Octavia Tried to Tell Us’ Has New Meaning
The phrase, which gained momentum in 2020, has resurfaced, in part because it can seem like Octavia Butler was more than a ...
Octavia Butler predicted fire disaster in Los Angeles in 1993 book 'Parable of the Sower'
Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...
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Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
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 ...
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In Her Inventive and Prescient Stories, Octavia Butler Wrote Herself Into the Science Fiction Canon
Chris Gunn Octavia 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 ...