Parable of the Sower A Novel

Parable of the Sower, you know, continues to be just profoundly prescient and a beautiful must read for everyone.

Parable of the Sower, you know, continues to be just profoundly prescient and a beautiful mustread for everyone.

She was somewhat Afrofuturist, but she was also very much... A lot of her stories really blended. A lot of people have a lot of different backgrounds and histories.

The book is set in California, and they are struggling with pervasive water shortages, and masses of poor people will do basically anything to live to see another day.

She really gets you invested in the setting and in the character early on.

She really emphasizes that change is neither good or bad, but it is potential.

Her shit's all over the library.

She really gets you invested in the setting and in the character early on.

Because, I mean, to be fair, she knew America.

And so I think that as she's writing of this horrific future, she's drawing a lot from her horrific past, or rather America's horrific past, of which her history is a part.

And she has to figure out a way out of it, which she comes to believe in so much that in her own way, she becomes stuck in that new thing.

In her speech to the UN in 2001, that would be like five years before she passed away. I think she died in, like I said, 2006.

And I finally read Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, which I've never read, which is really, really good in a classic.

I just started reading it again because I was like, it's been, it's been a few years and like we've lived through a lot of Parable of the Sower-esque stuff. I feel like I should read it again. It is fucking wild how accurate she was. Like wow.

It is eerie. It's really like, am I reading a book or am I reading my journal?

Octavia Butler is the one who made that real. Not Margaret Atwood. Octavia Butler is who Margaret Atwood wanted to be.

Anything by Chuck Pahne guys. He's out there and Octavia Butler, the parable of the sewer series is just such a profound work

I made a beginning on the science fiction opus of Octavia Butler, who Adrienne Marie Brown introduced me to in our early summer on being conversation.

There's this passage from the Parable of the Sower. The Book of the Living, verse 19. And it's all successful life.

And I've seen you kind of work with the words, with the language and the ideas that are at the core of your work. Also kind of emergent from this passage or at least, right? And so all successful life is.

And I just love that framing, right? Because as you said, it's the apocalypse, but it's also it's what could we be moving towards, right?

How does successful life function? Is adaptable, opportunistic, tenacious, interconnected, fecund, understand this, use it, shape God. Yes.

She was very solution oriented in her writing, she was very like, practical in her writing. So everything is very clear, like you're not going to read Octavia and come away confused, you're going to read it and be like, Oh, I should pack a bag so that I'm prepared for when the apocalypse comes. And here's what I should put in it.