A presidential character in the author's 1998 "Parable of the Talents" was inspired by Ronald Reagan, who used the campaign ...

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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 ...

A Black History Month exhibition transforms six Black-owned Myrtle Avenue businesses into an open-air gallery honoring Richard Wright, Octavia Butler and other influential Black authors through ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — Octavia Butler was a pioneer in the world of science fiction. Her books — detailing pandemics, gun violence, drug use and environmental destruction — were prescient. Born in ...

Fans of the late Octavia Butler are rejoicing after news has emerged that Butler’s book Dawn is being made into a television series. Suggested Reading Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan Reveal Backstory ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025? They showed up. That political chaos she wrote ...

Octavia Butler used to say she remembers exactly when she decided to become a science fiction writer. She was 9 years old and saw a 1954 B-movie called Devil Girl from Mars, and two things struck her.

Before The Parable of the Sower became a staple on syllabi across the country, Octavia E. Butler was quietly living and writing in Lake Forest Park. From 1999 until her death in 2006, she made her ...

When Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred was assigned to me in a university literature course, I didn’t know what I was in for. Assigned books can be like wading into murky waters—you’re never sure if ...

Influential writer Octavia Butler’s literary legend may spread to a new type of fanbase with the introduction of a graphic novel adaptation of “Parable of the Talents,” originally published as a novel ...