In Octavia Butler’s Pasadena, readers pick up visionary novel and find lessons in post-fire LA
Books can turn up in your life when you need them. What does the resurgent popularity of a dystopian novel say about modern ...
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Racial Healing: What we can learn from Octavia Butler in times of chaos
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025? They showed up. That political chaos she ...
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'Her work asks us to confront the cycles of oppression and resilience': Octavia E. Butler’s enduring influence on artists
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.
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A visit to a lab of the future, tucked away in Downtown LA
In 1993, sci-fi writer Octavia Butler published her groundbreaking dystopian novel Parable of the Sower, which is set in the year 2025 in a Los Angeles suburb that is plagued by gun violence, ...