We look at the world of BookTok and the book clubs you'll wish you knew about sooner. Plus, the owner of Octavia’s Bookshelf ...

As wildfires scorched the Los Angeles area in January 2025, a number of Snopes readers and commentators (archived) pointed out similarities between current events and the plot of Octavia Butler's ...

In their new show at Pioneer Works in New York, American Artist reflects on Butler’s most famous series of novels and her ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ...

Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles, consumed by fires, and last week, the cemetery where the iconic author is buried caught fire amid the ongoing wildfires impacting ...

A period of personal reflection during the 2020 pandemic inspired her to open her own bookstore in her and Octavia E. Butler’s hometown. “I wanted to create something that didn’t exist ...

Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

In the 1993 speculative fiction classic, American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler, who lived in nearby Altadena, predicted the catastrophic Los Angeles fires. View this post on Instagram ...

From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable of the Sower — a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is “Make America ...

Japanese YouTuber Uketsu is best known for wearing a white papier-mache mask and making very surreal content. Now, he’s a ...

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 ...