OCTAVIA E. BUTLER (–) was the renowned author of numerous ground-breaking novels, including Kindred, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, and a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work, in she became the first science- fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship ‘Genius Grant’/5(K). Four Walls Eight Windows, Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good-. Signed by Author. Signed and inscribed by Octavia Butler on half title page. Second printing. Hardcover in jacket, price intact on jacket flap. Tiny stain to front end. In Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler looks both forward and backward, and she does not flinch from humanity’s atrocities. The story not only reflects life in broadstrokes—climate change, power, feminism, racism—but also in intimate detail as we follow wise and rarely-gifted fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina on her journey toward safety, discovery, and a new belief system/5(K).
by Butler, Octavia E. In acclaimed science-fiction author Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, we find the world in , crippled by global warming, pollution, and socio-cultural tensions. Empath Lauren Olamina flees with her community to escape the dangerous pyromaniacs who are destroying the remainders of civilizations. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren's father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, war, and chronic shortages of water, gasoline, and more. Parable of the Sower Summary. Next. Chapter 1. It is the year , the night before Lauren Olamina 's 15th birthday (and Lauren's father 's 55th). Lauren has a dream in which she is teaching herself to fly, but ends up flying into a wall of fire. Later, she and her stepmother, Cory, discuss the fact that now there is no light pollution.
Parable of the Sower is a science fiction novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler It is an apocalypse science fiction novel that provides commentary on climate change and social inequality. The novel follows Lauren Olamina in her quest for freedom. Several characters from various walks of life join her on her journey north and learn of. OCTAVIA E. BUTLER (–) was the renowned author of numerous ground-breaking novels, including Kindred, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, and a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work, in she became the first science- fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship. In Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler looks both forward and backward, and she does not flinch from humanity’s atrocities. The story not only reflects life in broadstrokes—climate change, power, feminism, racism—but also in intimate detail as we follow wise and rarely-gifted fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina on her journey toward.
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