Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Influential writer Octavia Butler's literary legend may spread to a new type of fanbase with the introduction of a graphic novel ...

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 ...

Before The Parable of the Sower became a staple on syllabi across the country, Octavia E. Butler was quietly living and writing in Lake Forest Park. From 1999 until her death in 2006, she made her ...

Reimagining rocket science through Octavia Butler’s vision of space and survival. American Artist reimagines the history of rocket science through the lens of Octavia Butler, blending speculative ...

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 ...