In Octavia Butler’s Pasadena, readers pick up visionary novel and find lessons in post-fire LA
Books can turn up in your life when you need them. What does the resurgent popularity of a dystopian novel say about modern ...
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Racial Healing: What we can learn from Octavia Butler in times of chaos
Octavia Butler's prescient novels offer a roadmap for survival in our changing world. Discover how her Afrofuturist works inspire hope and action.
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A visit to a lab of the future, tucked away in Downtown LA
The LA central library’s Octavia Lab provides free access to recording studios, 3D printers, video editing software. All you ...
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How Black female science fiction and fantasy writers are upending the narrative
Octavia Butler, who died in 2006, once said of "The Parable of the Sower," her celebrated 1993 novel about a woman who feels others' pain, "I began writing the book with the thought that maybe ...
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Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Parable Of The Sower’ Confronts What Comes After The End
I will start by saying something nice about Parable Of The Sower, which is that it really is as prescient as advertised. So ...