What I’m Reading: “Parable Of The Sower” by Octavia Butler

I really liked this book.

I’m not sure I can say that I really loved this book, because it’s post-apocalyptic near-future science fiction and Octavia Butler’s story is stark, harsh, brutal…

In fact, this sort of dystopian/post-apocalyptic storytelling is not really my thing, so it is quite a tribute for me to say that I really liked it.

Here’s what I liked: this is a story about real people in a world radically altered, and not for the better, by climate change. The characters, like the rest...