In "Parable of the Sower," the main character, Lauren, writes diary entries in the years 2024 and 2025, which mention a number of natural disasters including "a big, ...

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 ...

When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable of the Sower — a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is “Make America ...

Butler’s Parable of the Sower, written in 1993 and set in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, feels hauntingly prescient in light of these events. In one scene, ...