Celebrated science fiction author and Pasadena native Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) tussled with the same environmental and social concerns as contemporary Angelenos. We know, because the ...

In 2021, Alyssa Collins was awarded a yearlong Octavia E. Butler Fellowship from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. Butler, whose papers are held at ...

For pioneering science fiction novelist Octavia E. Butler, writing was more than a profession. It was a form of survival, resistance and reflection. In “Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been traversing Mars for the past few weeks with major astro-nerds raving about the trek. Upon touchdown on the Red Planet, a milestone was made—during Women’s History ...

Octavia E. Butler: The visionary force behind 'Kindred' Before dystopian fiction like "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent" reflected an increasingly diverse society, there was Octavia E. Butler, one of ...

Influential writer Octavia Butler’s literary legend may spread to a new type of fanbase with the introduction of a graphic novel adaptation of “Parable of the Talents,” originally published as a novel ...

In a beautiful essay in Vulture, published earlier this year, E. Alex Jung writes that Octavia E. Butler “never told an aspiring writer they should give up, rather that they should learn, study, ...

In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, earthquakes and an addictive pharmaceutical that fuels a destructive drug ...

The Highland Project’s Gabrielle Wyatt observes that Octavia E. Butler envisioned our current world with eerie precision, but her prophecies were not exercises in gloom. They provided a blueprint for ...

The 1993 novel is hailed as one of the best science fiction books of all time, along with George Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’ One of the most lauded science fiction ...

In Octavia E. Butler’s novelette “Bloodchild,” a quantum of humanity fleeing Earth finds sanctuary on a distant planet—but at a price. The native Tlic, a species of intelligent, centipedelike aliens, ...