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 ...

I’m trying to pull that in. So basically what we did is we took cues from our other collaborator — who was Octavia E. Butler. We’re just trying to take cues from what she’s describing to ...

An Olivetti Studio 46 typewriter that belonged to Octavia E. Butler. As the author recalled ... She also jotted down ideas while crisscrossing Los Angeles on public buses, using the people ...

ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena ...

I don’t believe, for instance, that when Octavia E ... more than 60 square miles of Los Angeles County, destroying 12,000 structures and killing at least 24, Butler’s novel has taken on ...

Set in a near-future Los Angeles devastated by societal collapse ... An adaptation of the first book in Octavia E. Butler’s acclaimed science fiction odyssey.

Unveiled last Friday at Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena, with illustrator John Jennings in attendance for a Q&A, the adaptation will be released Tuesday by Abrams ComicsArts.