The devastating California wildfires of October 2024 resonate with the prescient themes of Octavia Butler's science fiction novels, particularly her Parable series. Butler's work, which explored the societal consequences of climate change, resource scarcity, and political extremism, now serves as a chilling reminder of the dangers ignored in the face of climate inaction.
Last June, Pasadena, California – about 11 miles from downtown Los Angeles – decreed that June 22 was Octavia E. Butler Day, in honor of the science fiction writer born in the city on that day in 1947. The Pasadena middle school Butler attended was renamed for her in 2022.
” Reading her words amidst the conservative onslaught against public libraries and education that deviates from the white, cisheteropatriarchal norm – as online platforms expected to take these spaces’ place are owned by people like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg – is an experience that’s, well, hard to put into words. An indifference to the truth ignores the fact that, in Butler’s words, “Ignorance is expensive.
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