What do you mean you haven't read... Octavia E. Butler
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Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was the author of numerous ground-breaking novels and is known as the ‘Mother of Afrofuturism.’ Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship ‘Genius Grant’.
Themes explored within her novels include the violence of hierarchical oppression, survivors or disenfranchised characters as hero’s and the creation of alternative communities.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
'If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's one written in the past that has already begun to come true. This is what makes Parable of the Sower even more impressive than it was when first published' - Gloria Steinem
We are coming apart. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.
America is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe. Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others as her own, records everything she sees of this broken world in her journal.
Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves.
Soon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever.
All that you touch,
You Change.
All that you Change,
Changes you.
Buy the original novel or the beautiful graphic novel adapted by Damian Duffy and Illustrated by John Jennings. Or purchase both!
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
‘In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time… for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler’s novel may be unmatched’ New Yorker
In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.
Asha was born into a broken world. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering – and the truth about her mother.
In her journals, Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter, her community and the revelation that led her to found a new faith that teaches ‘God Is Change’. But under a tyrannical religious regime who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat, Lauren knows she must soon either sacrifice her daughter and her followers – or forsake the beliefs that could transform human destiny.
Octavia E. Butler’s award-winning novel is an almost-prophetic take on our world today.
In addition to the Parable books or the Earthseed series Octavia E. Butler also wrote:
Dawn (Lilith's Brood – Book One)
Adulthood Rites (Lilith's Brood – Book Two)
Imago (Lilith's Brood – Book Three)
Bloodchild
Seed to Harvest
Kindred
Fledgling
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