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 ...

For pioneering science fiction novelist Octavia E. Butler, writing was more than a profession. It was a form of survival, resistance and reflection. In “Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of ...

The Highland Project’s Gabrielle Wyatt observes that Octavia E. Butler envisioned our current world with eerie precision, but her prophecies were not exercises in gloom. They provided a blueprint for ...

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 ...

Octavia E. Butler: The visionary force behind 'Kindred' Before dystopian fiction like "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent" reflected an increasingly diverse society, there was Octavia E. Butler, one of ...

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 ...

Late science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler started to imagine the worlds that would become best-selling books while a Pasadena public school student. Washington Junior High School was renamed ...

What do an asteroid, a crater on Mars, a school in Pasadena, California, and Lake Forest Park, Wash., have in common? They all have features named after sci-fi author Octavia E. Butler. "Octavia ...

Join us for this very specialone-night-only streaming ofOctavia E. Butlers Parable of the Sower: The Concert Experience!The event starts with a conversation between Toshi Reagon and a panel of artists ...

Grayson Schnitger is a sixth grader at the Pasadena middle school and says his dad first recommended sci-fi. “I like just reading stuff that could happen and, like, knowing possibilities in the future ...