In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, ...

The brisk sales of Octavia Butler’s ninth novel, “The Parable of the Sower” is especially notable since Butler, who died in 2006, was born in Pasadena. A middle school there bears her name. And the ...

See Michigan readers' most-circulated books via MeLCat in 2025 as federal budget cuts threaten to cut back library services.

Afrofuturism, Black Panther, Colonialism, Speculative Fiction, Black Liberation Share and Cite: Ye, W. H. (2025). Afrofuturism, Black Literature, and the Liberatory Vision of Black Panther. Open ...

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 ...