Spirit: Is Octavia Butler an author or a prophet?
Posted by: souljah on Dec 27, 2002 - 11:24 AM
"Multiple award winner Octavia E. Butler's astonishing novels have made her a powerful, acclaimed voice in women's fiction, African-American literature, and modern science fiction. Parable of the Sower is her stunning portrait of an all-too-believable near future, a twenty-first century of horror -- and hope."
GOD IS CHANGE
Lauren Olamina is an empath, crippled by the pain of others. Cloistered inside a neighborhood enclave in a U.S. where the distance between the haves and the have-nots has widened to a gaping chasm, she lives a protected life. But one night, violence explodes, and the walls of her neighborhood are smashed, annihilating Lauren's family and friends -- all she loves and knows.
Now the empath must face the world outside. Leading a tiny band of desperate followers through a thousand miles of Hell, she is a prophet bearing nothing but the promises of new life and a new faith...Earthseed.
America, 2025...From the ruins will ari! ! se a new prophet, a new path, a new day...
Parable of the Sower
A 1994 New York Times Recommended Book
Praise for Octavia E. Butler:
"Butler is among the best of contemporary SF writers, blessed with a mind capable of conceiving complicated futuristic situations that shed considerable light on our current affairs. Her prose is lean and literate, her ideas expansive and elegant."
-Houston Post
"Butler's literary craftsmanship is superb."
-Washington Post Book World
"Butler's books are exceptional...Butler is a realist, writing the most detailed social criticism and creating some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre...real women caught in impossible situations."
-Village Voice
"Butler's spare, vivid prose style invites comparison with the likes of Kate Wilhelm and Ursula Le Guin."
-Kirkus Reviews
"What 'cyberpunk' author William Gibson does for (white readers), Octavia Butler does f! or! people of color. She gives us a future."
-Vibe
"A lively futurescape...A literature of survival."
-Ms.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
~~~~~
Octavia Estelle Butler
More
GOD IS CHANGE
Lauren Olamina is an empath, crippled by the pain of others. Cloistered inside a neighborhood enclave in a U.S. where the distance between the haves and the have-nots has widened to a gaping chasm, she lives a protected life. But one night, violence explodes, and the walls of her neighborhood are smashed, annihilating Lauren's family and friends -- all she loves and knows.
Now the empath must face the world outside. Leading a tiny band of desperate followers through a thousand miles of Hell, she is a prophet bearing nothing but the promises of new life and a new faith...Earthseed.
America, 2025...From the ruins will ari! ! se a new prophet, a new path, a new day...
Parable of the Sower
A 1994 New York Times Recommended Book
Praise for Octavia E. Butler:
"Butler is among the best of contemporary SF writers, blessed with a mind capable of conceiving complicated futuristic situations that shed considerable light on our current affairs. Her prose is lean and literate, her ideas expansive and elegant."
-Houston Post
"Butler's literary craftsmanship is superb."
-Washington Post Book World
"Butler's books are exceptional...Butler is a realist, writing the most detailed social criticism and creating some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre...real women caught in impossible situations."
-Village Voice
"Butler's spare, vivid prose style invites comparison with the likes of Kate Wilhelm and Ursula Le Guin."
-Kirkus Reviews
"What 'cyberpunk' author William Gibson does for (white readers), Octavia Butler does f! or! people of color. She gives us a future."
-Vibe
"A lively futurescape...A literature of survival."
-Ms.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
~~~~~
Octavia Estelle Butler
More
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