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Could Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Talents’ draw a new audience as a graphic novel?
Unveiled last Friday at Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena, with illustrator John Jennings in attendance for a Q&A, the ...
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In Octavia Butler’s Pasadena, readers pick up visionary novel and find lessons in post-fire LA
The brisk sales of Octavia Butler’s ninth ... of not looking away even when things are hard,” Hoskins said. That we change the world with our choices, and the communal experience of the ...
Why it’s time for Octavia E. Butler and the ‘Parables’ at The Huntington
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 ...
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In Her Inventive and Prescient Stories, Octavia Butler Wrote Herself Into the Science Fiction Canon
An Olivetti Studio 46 typewriter that belonged to Octavia E. Butler. As the author recalled: "I wrote my first ten books on a manual typewriter." Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait ...
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Why it’s time for Octavia E. Butler and the ‘Parables’ at The Huntington
In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia ... in Butler’s work – wasn’t the focus of the evening. As others have noted, Butler wasn’t so much prophesying the future as looking hard at the ...