Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

@leahstokes.bsky.social I managed to persuade my book group to schedule this. That was before the fires started, so I'm really feeling the synchronicity.

I say more a modern day Cassandra - always spoke truth but rejected by her listeners.