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Octavia Butler Wanted to Prevent Disaster in Los Angeles. Instead, She Predicted It
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, a Black-owned ...
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Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
(AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ... diary entry in the book, referring to a small ...
Pasadena Star-News20d
In Octavia Butler’s Pasadena, readers pick up visionary novel and find lessons in post-fire LA
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.