Why it’s time for Octavia E. Butler and the ‘Parables’ at The Huntington
In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, ...
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Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler ... of science fiction, Butler grew up near Altadena, in ...
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In Octavia Butler’s Pasadena, readers pick up visionary novel and find lessons in post-fire LA
Her papers are in the Octavia E. Butler Archives at the Huntington Library. The Eaton fire came close to Altadena’s Mountain View Cemetery, where Butler is buried. “It’s still very popular, it felt ...