Rolling Stone

Octavia Butler Wanted to Prevent Disaster in Los Angeles. Instead, She Predicted It

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 Great Again” ...
Yahoo

The Eerie Prescience of Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower'

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Washington Post/Getty Images As wildfires scorched the Los Angeles area in January 2025, a number of Snopes readers and ...
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Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’ is set to become a feature film, with Melina Matsoukas directing

The 1993 novel is hailed as one of the best science fiction books of all time, along with George Orwell's '1984' and Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale.' One of the most lauded science fiction ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — now it's also an opera

Octavia Butler's novel Parable of the Sower — depicting a dystopian U.S. in 2024 — was published 30 years ago. Toshi Reagon's new musical... Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — ...
Star Tribune

How Octavia Butler's prophetic novel 'Parable of the Sower' became an opera

Toshi Reagon, the genre-busting folk-gospel-rock musician, first encountered Octavia Butler's Afro-futuristic "Parable of the Sower" in the late 1990s. She was shocked by the novel's prescience. "When ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — now it's also an opera

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 ...