Earthseed: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

Haha

Oh, it’ll come, don’t worry, be patient.

Susan Talcott Bruce

Yay!

The company-city subgenre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped “the company.”

I’ve never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company. In real life, that’s the way it will be. That’s the way it is.

To begin Earthseed, I’ll have to go outside.

Given any chance at all, teaching is what I would choose to do. Even if I have to take other kinds of work to get enough to eat, I can teach.

Adaptable, Opportunistic, Tenacious, Interconnected, and Fecund.

Earthseed: The Book of the Living.

I’m trying to speak—to write—the truth. I’m trying to be clear. I’m not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

The author’s own voice

I’ll adapt where I must, take what opportunities I can find or make, hang on, gather students, and teach.

Adaptsble

I’ll adapt where I must, take what opportunities I can find or make, hang on, gather students, and teach.

Opportunitistic

I’ll adapt where I must, take what opportunities I can find or make, hang on, gat...

Tenacious

I’ll adapt where I must, take what opportunities I can find or make, hang on, gat...

Interconnected

I’ll adapt where I must, take what opportunities I can find or make, hang on, gat...

Fecund

Joanne

Harry Balter.

“He thinks the way your father does. He thinks Olivar’s a trap.

no matter how great Olivar looks, all we’ll get from it in the end is debt and loss of freedom.”

all we’ll get from it in the end is debt and l...

Haha

Haha

Maybe the security Joanne will find in Olivar is the only kind of security to be had for anyone who isn’t rich.

Who have their own poverty, and their own prisons to contend rend with.

security in Olivar isn’t much more attractive than the security Keith has finally found in his urn.

Simile metaphor

Things are changing too much, too fast. Who can fight God?

Who knows what I might wind up doing?” That last didn’t feel like a lie.

“You think there’ll be more privatized cities?” she asked. “Bound to be if Olivar succeeds.

This country is going to be parceled out as a source of cheap l...

Marcus

Jay Garfield

We don’t look for what we’d rather not find.

Marcus

Jay Garfield

Smart guy

George Hsu

Sound doesn’t trigger my sharing. I have to see another person in pain before I do any sharing.

Kayla Talcott

Haha

We found human bones and animal bones.

At last, we came home and wrapped our community wall around us and huddled in our illusions of security.

Richard Moss

Wardell Parrish

Even the severed arm’s fingerprints weren’t his.

Nightmares

We’ve found nothing but more of the dead and the poorest of the living—people who are all staring eyes and visible bones.

My own bones ached in empathy.

I’ve always seen them. I’ve never seen them.

Wyatt Talcott

Jay Garfield