One of the most important and groundbreaking science-fiction authors of her time, Octavia E. Butler is headed back to bookstores. There’s power in threes. The rule of three, we call it in the writing ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our ...

As wildfires scorched the Los Angeles area in January 2025, a number of Snopes readers and commentators (archived) pointed out similarities between current events and the plot of Octavia Butler's 1993 ...

JOY—Georges Bernanos (297 pp.)—Translated by Louise Varèse—Panfheon Books ($2.75). Georges Bernanos is France’s most distinguished Catholic author—and his own Church’s sharpest critic. His literary ...

With the Doomsday Clock ticking ever closer to midnight and threats of nuclear war and illness outbreaks, things are a little scary right now, globally. In 1993, science-fiction writer Octavia E.