Los Angeles and the Literature of the Apocalypse

David L. Ulin Los Angeles Times January 22, 2025

I don’t believe in prescience. I don’t believe, for instance, that when Octavia E. Butler began to write her 1993 novel, “Parable of the Sower,” she was working with a kind of second sight.

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