Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...

ALTADENA, Calif. — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch ...

Survive till 2025, they said. They didn’t say what would come next. A week into the new year, wildfires devastated Pacific ...

Widely cited as the first major Black woman author of science fiction, Butler grew up near Altadena, in Pasadena, and spent much of her life in Southern California before moving to the Seattle ...