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 lived in nearby Altadena, predicted the catastrophic Los Angeles fires.

In their new show at Pioneer Works in New York, American Artist reflects on Butler’s most famous series of novels and her archives

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?

I moved away from California about 35 years ago, but I still think about the years I spent there. When I used to look up my old neighborhood in Altadena, CA on Google Maps, it was always green. Last week, when I looked it up on the Eaton Fire map, it was all yellow. When I looked it up tonight on a different map, it was mostly red.

"The future is not pretty and shiny. It has all the same problems that we have now." American Artist told ARTnews.

Loss, love and a sense of belonging — survivors, evacuees, heroes and allies weigh in on what the fires revealed

The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic Black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.

As flames tore through the picturesque foothills of Altadena and Pasadena on Jan. 7, the Eaton Canyon fires left a historic Black community – rooted in the Civil Rights Movement – nearly wiped out. Among the hardest-hit areas in Los Angeles County, Altadena has seen its many Black-owned homes, churches, businesses and landmarks reduced to ashes.

Strong, damaging Santa Ana winds are expected to bring extreme wildfire danger to Southern California Monday into Tuesday as the landscape remains dangerously starved of rain, and as firefighters continue to work to fully contain wildfires that left at least 27 people dead and destroyed thousands of homes this month.

The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when accelerated by human-caused climate change. The Palisades fire and

Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world wracked by climate

Nearly every day since the Eaton Fire destroyed her home, Dr. Dorothy Ludd-Lloyd’s relatives have tried to get the 88-year-old past the National Guard so she