Earthseed: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

Humboldt Bay

Arcata Bay

The warming has made tropical diseases like malaria and dengue normal parts of life in the warm, wet Gulf Coast and southern Atlantic coast states.

Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have joined forces in a religious war against India.

They are the last discoveries that will be made by scientists working for the U.S. Government.

“If it’s worth doing at all,” Donner said, “it should be done for profit, and not as a burden on the taxpayers.”

I wonder, though, where the money received in exchange for the installations has gone.

As a country, we’ve given up our birthright for even less than bread and pottage. We’ve given it up for nothing—although I’m sure some people somewhere are richer now.

Genesis 25:29-34, theology

We’re sliding into undirected negative change, and what’s worse, we’re getting used to it. All too often, we shape ourselves and our futures in such stupid ways.

Channa Ryan’s

And, of course, women will be free to do without men completely, since women can provide their own ova. I wonder what this will mean for humanity in the future. Radical change or just one more option among the many?

Lucio Figueroa, Zahra Balter, and Jeff King

dozens of novels.

Arcata.

fifteen boxes of books.

I don’t suppose she was really any more prepared for sudden changes than anyone else, but her beliefs helped her cope with them, even take advantage of them when they came.

California, Oregon, and Washington.

Mike Kardos

Garberville

Marcus.

Eureka,

Eureka.

Travis and Natividad Douglas

Literally, I hope

The attackers really were Jarret loyalists, by the way. They came from the Eureka-Arcata area, from the new Christian America churches that have sprung up there.

Thanks to malnutrition, climate change, poverty, and ignorance, a lot of old diseases are back, and some of them are contagious.

Ukiah

Mendocino County.

There’s a store, a café, a games hall, bar, a hotel, a fuel station, and a repair shop where tools, guns, and vehicles of all kinds might be restored to usefulness.

This service in particular has made the place a combination message center, meeting place, and Old West saloon.

Elroy George

The Georges aren’t slavers, but they’ve been known to handle drugs.

Dolores Ramos George,

“Around here, if you don’t guard a fruit tree and shoot a couple of people to prove you mean it, they’ll tear off all the fruit, then cut down the tree for firewood.

I won’t let my boys kill people to save trees and plants, but I really miss oranges and grapes and things.”

Natividad

Travis and Bankole

Dan and me,

Black

White.

“Cougar,”

“Olamina.”

Nina

Paula

We still don’t know whose work this tongue cutting is, but we know that some Christian America types would be happy to silence all women.

to. I would not leave my brother in this man’s hands. The thought that I had to leave any of these kids in his hands was sickening.

he followed the example of the two men. He kept quiet.

I think being a sharer makes me extra sensitive to body language.

The girl and Dan stared at one another, and it hit me again that I was going to have to walk away and leave these children to their pimp.