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The brisk sales of Octavia Butler’s ninth novel, “The Parable of the Sower” is especially notable since Butler, who died in 2006, was born in Pasadena. A middle school there bears her name.

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In ‘The Alluvials,’ artist Alice Bucknell reimagines the Los Angeles water system.

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In an absurd world order that threatens Black femme existence, Afrofuturists teach us to peer beyond Beauty culture and other systemic delusions of power into new, imaginative realities.