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In 1992, while Octavia E. Butler was writing her novel Parable of the Sower, Los Angeles was hitting bottom. The acquittal of ...
showcasing Butler’s talent for blending intricate character development with profound philosophical questions. Finish story here; 8 Essential Octavia Butler Books Everyone Should Read.
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After realizing her business survived the Eaton Fire, Nikki High, opened her bookstore’s shelfs for donations and offered ...
Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter ... “Parable of the Sower,” by Octavia E. Butler: Speculative fiction set largely in a future (now present) Southern California ravaged by ...
Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles ... “It’s hard not to read the books and think, ‘How did she know?’” Butler herself was quick to reject the notion that she ...
ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ... diary entry in the book, referring to a small fire that presages the destructive fires to come in the novel.
But before we totally dismiss the Fonz, we must admit that his view of the situation is actually not far from the one we find in the first book of Octavia Butler's Parable series, Parable of the ...
The inspiration behind Octavia’s Bookshelf stemmed from selling books that High felt Butler would have had in her own home. There was the wall of classics, featuring Black writers from Zora ...
In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 speculative fiction classic, American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler, who ...