"ALL THAT YOU TOUCH, YOU CHANGE. ALL THAT YOU CHANGE, CHANGES YOU."
""histofuturist.""
""I didn't make up the problems,""
""All I did was look around at the problems we're neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters.""
Octavia Butler is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in the San Gabriel foothills; her grave was spared by a recent fire. Her footstone quotes Parable of the Sower: ALL THAT YOU TOUCH, YOU CHANGE. ALL THAT YOU CHANGE, CHANGES YOU. Parable of the Sower, set in the mid-2020s, depicts a United States warped by global warming, corporate control of daily governance, sealed borders, widening wealth gaps, and massive Southern California wildfires. Butler described herself as a "histofuturist" who studied historical patterns of demagoguery, racial and class inequality, and early climate science predictions. She said she did not invent the problems but projected existing neglect forward about thirty years to reveal potential disasters.
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