Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) in 2016 Authors of Color Challenge!

Oct 12, 2011 Meredith Kadet Sanderson rated it really liked it

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I finished this in two days. Dystopia + process theology + women of color = <3

I am on to the Parable of the Talents... and I got three more of her books from the library today. Hello, End of the Semester!

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Jan 02, 2025 Litsplaining rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, read-in-a-week, own-a-copy, read-in-2024, all-time-favorites, african-american-literature, audiobook, afrofuturism, zora-canon, black-women-writing

Engrossing tale of a post-apocalypse world that feels all too familiar. This was one of my favorite reads of 2024.

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Feb 24, 2021 AJ Nolan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, author-of-color, science-fiction, woman-writer, audiobook, 2021-books

How did I not read this book before now? It is so good; it is well written with big ideas, compelling characters, and a plot that moves. And it is so engrossing because Butler didn't imagine a futurescape with zombies or some other existential threat, rather she imagined the world continuing down the path of climate change, societal schisms, sexual violence, and racism that existed when she wrote this in 1993. And so we have a world here that is disturbingly close to the world we have been livin ...more

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Sep 07, 2011 Akiva ꙮ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: f-scifi-specfic, z-au-oc, f-life-is-hard, f-race-eth-identity, 3-fmt-f-novel

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Jul 05, 2023 Roda rated it really liked it

Shelves: first-in-a-series, unfinished-complete-series

This world is terrifying as it's familiar and a potential world, issues of water scarcity and general resources, in a world where we have rising living costs and queues for food banks extending.

I think it's the realism aspect that makes the events that unfold especially terrifying. Whilst it's written in a more distanced narrative, it doesn't make the events that occur any less horrifying. It tackles climate change, gender roles and human nature but also because we are following Lauren and her ...more

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