In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, ...

Her works, defined by their complex characters ... Finish story here; 8 Essential Octavia Butler Books Everyone Should Read.

Success! Your account was created and you’re signed in. Please visit My Account to verify and manage your account. An account was already registered with this email. Please check your inbox for ...

a science fiction area that sat next to a shelf dedicated strictly to Butler's works. Now, instead of books, Octavia's Bookshelf - which miraculously survived the fire - is filled with free goods ...

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 ...

The first on-screen adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's work should be cause for celebration. A titan of science fiction and the first writer in the genre to receive a MacArthur Fellowship ...

a response to include works that addressed the issue. There’s been a resurgence in interest in Octavia Butler’s dystopian novel “The Parable of the Sower” after the Eaton and Palisades fires.

Butler did not see her work as a call to despair, but as a way to ''discern possibilities'' and how to respond, ''an act of hope.'' Italie reported from New York. Share ...

Afrofuturism, Black Panther, Colonialism, Speculative Fiction, Black Liberation Share and Cite: Ye, W. H. (2025). Afrofuturism, Black Literature, and the Liberatory Vision of Black Panther. Open ...

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, ...

The Octavia E. Butler Library Science Fiction Festival will return on March 21 from 3:00 – 6:00 pm. By Festival highlights ...