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

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 ...

“This community – Pasadena, Altadena, the community that’s ... re seeing or that you’re reading about in a book, an Octavia Butler book, you will start to ask yourself some questions ...