In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, earthquakes and an addictive pharmaceutical that fuels a destructive drug ...

The administration is fundamentally changing the shape of our democracy — but to get away, you can crack open a book (for now ...

Your skin is brittle yet oozing. Even breath hurts as You bleed out And with each slower heartbeat    silent thunder. You of ...

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.

In a May 2000 essay for Essence magazine, Octavia Butler wrote that “to try to foretell the future without studying history ...

An Olivetti Studio 46 typewriter that belonged to Octavia E. Butler. As the author recalled: "I wrote my first ten books on a manual typewriter." Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait ...

Octavia E. Butler transformed sci-fi with visionary stories on race and identity, yet mainstream fame eluded her. Her legacy ...

For readers of this journal, Octavia E. Butler literally needs no introduction. Her exquisite, insightful works—especially the three XENOGENESIS novels, (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago) and her ...

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Published in 1993, late science fiction writer Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" ranks 12th for this year's most-requested title. The novel predicts a dystopian future, set in 2024 ...