The start of summer is right around the corner, and we’ve got these books on our reading list. Although Butler passed away in 2006, her Parable of the Sower, ” a speculative novel predicted the hell ...
My long-lost friend Octavia Butler wrote stories that have been read by hundreds of thousands of us, to great acclaim. She was a role model, an award-winner, and by most standards, a genius. Many of ...
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 1993 ...