Earthseed series
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| Author(s) | Octavia E. Butler |
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| Publisher | Warner Books |
| Octavia E. Butler, the grande dame of science fiction, writes extraordinary, inspirational stories of ordinary people. | |
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Parable of the Sower: Book 1 of Earthseed
Octavia E. Butler, the grande dame of science fiction, writes extraordinary, inspirational stories of ordinary people. Parable of the Sower is a hopeful tale set in a dystopian future United States of walled cities, disease, fires, and madness. Lauren Olamina is an 18-year-old woman with hyperempathy syndrome—if she sees another in pain, she feels their pain as acutely as if it were real. When her relatively safe neighborhood enclave is inevitably destroyed, along with her family and dreams for the future, Lauren grabs a backpack full of supplies and…
Parable of the Talents: Book 2 of Earthseed
In her longest and arguably greatest novel, the long-awaited Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler revisits her familiar themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, separation and community in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032.
Parable of the Talents continues the story which began in Parable of the Sower. That novel’s heroine, Lauren, now has a daughter, and Parable of the Talents is told from the daughter’s point of view. A new government is in power, led by a far-right religious crusader as…
