Before dystopian fiction like “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent” reflected an increasingly diverse society, there was Octavia E. Butler, one of few African-American authors to become a prominent name ...

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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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Iowa-born Jemisin grew up between Mobile, Alabama and Brooklyn, where she now lives. A psychology major at Tulane who got a ...

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Octavia E. Butler: The visionary force behind 'Kindred' Before dystopian fiction like "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent" reflected an increasingly diverse society, there was Octavia E. Butler, one of ...