In 1992, while Octavia E. Butler was writing her novel Parable of the Sower, Los Angeles was hitting bottom. The acquittal of ...

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Her grave is marked by a quote from her celebrated novel Parable of the Sower: “All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you.” The phrase “Octavia tried to tell us” has ...

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Rebecca Castillo is a video creator and special projects lead for Los Angeles Times’ High School Insider and other Public Affairs programs. A Southern California native, she is an alumna of Swarthmore ...

Octavia Butler's novel "Parable of the Sower" is gaining attention for its eerily accurate predictions of the current societal collapse. The book, which was written in 1993, explores a future where a ...

People can be snobs about science fiction, and I admit that until a few years back I was one of them. Meanwhile, I had ...

The West Coast is on fire. Sea level rise is slowly eating away at our shores, and record-breaking floods have come for the Midwestern states. Wealth ...

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