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Octavia E.Butler

Parable of the Sower

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A New York Times Notable Book: In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.
“A stunner.” —Flea, musician and actor, TheWall Street Journal
Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.
When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Octavia E. Butler including rare images from the author’s estate.
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423 printed pages
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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  • Camila Caresshared an impression7 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    🎯Worthwhile
    🌴Beach Bag Book

    Mas que ciencia ficcion,diria que este libro podria entrar en la categoria de ficcion especulativa. Aunque la historia se desarrolla a partir del año 2025, los hechos que se describen no son extraños a los que ocurren hoy dia : la economia esta mal,los alimentos escasean, se legaliza la esclavitud y una nueva droga hace que la gente encuentre placer en quemar lo que sea. Todas estas cosas son realidad y otras pueden volverse real muy dentro de poco. Vale destacar que aunque se pinta un futuro sombrio en Parable of the sower tambien da una esperanza para la humanidad con el descubrimiento de Earthseed.

  • Alejandra Espinoshared an impression2 years ago
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    💞Loved Up
    🚀Unputdownable

  • Alicia Reyes Morenoshared an impression3 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💀Spooky
    🔮Hidden Depths
    🌴Beach Bag Book
    🚀Unputdownable

Quotes

  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted4 months ago
    We give lip service to acceptance, as though acceptance were enough. Then we go on to create super-people—super-parents, super-kings and queens, super-cops—to be our gods and to look after us—to stand between us and God. Yet God has been here all along, shaping us and being shaped by us in no particular way or in too many ways at once like an amoeba—or like a cancer. Chaos.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted4 months ago
    God can’t be resisted or stopped, but can be shaped and focused. This means God is not to be prayed to.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted4 months ago
    God exists to be shaped.

    God is Change.

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