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Warner Bros. is developing a film adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower with Melina Matsoukas set to direct ...

Octavia E. Butler's 'Parable of the Sower' topped our 101 Best Book Club Picks survey. The owner of Octavia's Bookshelf, ...

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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 ...

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? They showed up. That political chaos she wrote ...

When Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred was assigned to me in a university literature course, I didn’t know what I was in for. Assigned books can be like wading into murky waters—you’re never sure if ...

Octavia Butler used to say she remembers exactly when she decided to become a science fiction writer. She was 9 years old and saw a 1954 B-movie called Devil Girl from Mars, and two things struck her.

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 ...