Written in 1993 and hitting the bestseller list after almost 30 years in print, The Parable of the Sower is sweeping and prophetic in its scope.
Her empathy is a tremendous liability, as any weakness can become a deadly vulnerability in what has become a dark, dystopian United States.īut for Lauren, the seeds of hope are being sown in a new faith: Earthseed, a religion of her own making that helps her make sense of her changing world. Lauren suffers from hyper-empathy syndrome, a psychological condition that causes her to experience the pains and the pleasures of those around her, sometimes to debilitating effects. The Parable of the Sower follows Lauren Oya Olamina, a teenage girl in the mid-2020s who is the eldest daughter of a Baptist preacher inside a walled-in California community. Her extensive catalog of books, including the much-beloved Kindred, has changed the shape of speculative fiction and has inspired an entire generation of Black writers to follow in her footsteps.īut while many of her novels center on the distant past or the far-flung future, The Parable of the Sower concerns a quickly approaching tomorrow that makes for an eerie, unsettling read.
Octavia Butler has often been called the "grand dame of science fiction," and for good reason.
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