The Eerie Prescience of Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower'
As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...
The L.A. authors who predicted these fires and the books to help us understand them
Octavia E. Butler and Mike Davis are just some of the Angelenos whose books can help us understand L.A.'s fires, plus Kristin ...
Octavia Butler Wanted to Prevent Disaster in Los Angeles. Instead, She Predicted It
Many have called Butler a prophet for her futuristic prediction on L.A. fires in her novel 'Parable of the Sower,' but her ...
In Climate-Scorched L.A., the Burning Truth of Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The fires stand as a monumental example of nature’s destructive potential when accelerated by ...
Eerie 90s books ‘predicted LA wildfires’ and politician who vowed ‘make America great again’
From raging fires to a politician promising to Make America Great Again - Octavia Butler's novels are eerily prophetic.
Opinion: Beautiful Altadena’s one-of-a-kind town was destroyed. But we can rebuild
The Eaton fire devastated this diverse community at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. Here is what we've lost.
Beloved Black-owned bookstore in Pasadena becomes a safe haven for fire victims
But for the past two weeks, the Black-owned bookshop has been packed wall-to-wall with supplies like bottles of water, ...
Axios Sneak Peek on MSN6d
L.A. wildfires destroy Black community birthed from Civil Rights era
A historic Black community that grew out of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s is among the communities wiped away by ...
What We Lost in the Fires
Hollywood pays tribute to the irreplaceable artifacts and cultural touchstones that were destroyed, from the ‘Wizard of Oz’ ...