Octavia E. Butler, notes on writing, “I am a bestselling writer...” 1988. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Octavia E. Butler, notes on writing, “Tell stories filled with ...

The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler" by Susana M. Morris this month. I'm your reading guide . Let's get into the first ...

Celebrated science fiction author and Pasadena native Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) tussled with the same environmental and social concerns as contemporary Angelenos. We know, because the ...

Visual artist Paul Lewin created this work for Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon's musical setting of Parable of the Sower. Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower was published 30 ...

Susana M. Morris’s biography draws on the science fiction writer’s journals to reveal her genius, and her doubts ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

In romantic comedies, someone always says some cheesy line about wishing that they had found their significant other earlier in life so they could have had more time with them. As corny as it is, that ...

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 ...

Science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler said the novels in her “Parable” series were meant to be cautionary. Her 1993 “Parable of the Sower” follows Lauren Oya Olamina, a teenager born with ...

Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower was published 30 years ago, in 1993. This Afrofuturistic book about a dystopian America set in our time now seems positively prophetic — and a new ...