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Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — now it's also an opera

Octavia Butler's novel Parable of the Sower — depicting a dystopian U.S. in 2024 — was published 30 years ago. Toshi Reagon's new musical... Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — ...
CounterPunch

Octavia Butler’s “God-shaping:” A Fiction Less Strange

“This place is wonderful. And I love you for trying to provide it for [us]. But there’s nothing here but existence.” – Lauren Olamina, in Parable of the Talents, by Octavia Butler “…We need purpose!
National Catholic Reporter

Octavia Butler's American parables are a realistic sci-fi vision of life after apocalypse

America's belated embrace of author Octavia Butler has come at a fitting but disturbing time. Butler, a California native and MacArthur "genius" whose prescient oeuvre includes widely anthologized ...
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Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — now it's also an opera

Visual artist Paul Lewin created this work for Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon's musical setting of Parable of the Sower. Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower was published 30 ...
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Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — now it's also an opera

Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower was published 30 years ago, in 1993. This Afrofuturistic book about a dystopian America set in our time now seems positively prophetic — and a new ...