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 ...

The science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote about a fictional president who used the phrase "make America great again" in her 1998 book "Parable of the Talents." Rating: True (About this rating?) ...

Octavia Butler publicly denounced 'Survivor,' the third novel published in her 'Patternist' series. Here's why it's being reprinted anyway.

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 ...

This story is part of Image issue 11, “Renovation,” where we explore the architecture of everyday life — and what it would look like to tear it all down. Read the whole issue here. What face comes to ...

Visual artist Paul Lewin created this work for Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon's musical setting of Parable of the Sower. Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower was published 30 ...

Survivor, the third novel in Octavia Butler’s Patternist series, will soon be back on shelves despite Butler’s wishes. Octavia Butler may have been one of her own harshest critics. She held herself to ...

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 ...

January 2 is National Science Fiction Day, and ESSENCE is paying tribute to one of the greatest sci-fi novelists of all time, Octavia Estelle Butler. Named after her mother Octavia Margaret Guy and ...