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When composer and multi-instrumentalist Toshi Reagon first received a copy of Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower,” she was already familiar with the late author’s work. But something about it ...

With the Doomsday Clock ticking ever closer to midnight and threats of nuclear war and illness outbreaks, things are a little scary right now, globally. In 1993, science-fiction writer Octavia E.

Toshi Reagon, the genre-busting folk-gospel-rock musician, first encountered Octavia Butler's Afro-futuristic "Parable of the Sower" in the late 1990s. She was shocked by the novel's prescience. "When ...

Octavia Butler once said that she had intended for her novel Parable of the Sower to be cautionary rather than prophetic. Originally published in 1993, the novel takes place in a 2020s United States ...

One of the most important and groundbreaking science-fiction authors of her time, Octavia E. Butler is headed back to bookstores. There’s power in threes. The rule of three, we call it in the writing ...

(RNS) — The book hit bestseller lists this year 30 years after its publication, not only for its gritty, prophetic portrait of our times but because of its faith in humans to deal with difficult days.

Science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler said the novels in her “Parable” series were meant to be cautionary. Her 1993 “Parable of the Sower” follows Lauren Oya Olamina, a teenager born with ...

RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. — At the beginning of the summer Richland Library announced the kick-off to the 2022 Summer Learning Challenge by encouraging children, teens, and adults to read 30 minutes a day ...

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of ...

"And some fell into good soil and grew, and yielded a hundredfold. As he said this, he called out, ‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear’" (Luke 8:8). This Bible verse is from the Gospel of Luke, one ...

Discussing Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, influential sci-fi novel. Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel, Parable of the Sower, was selected as the most influential science fiction book of the last 125 ...