Parable of the Sower

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The odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025; the place is California, where small walled comunities must protect themselves from desperate hordes of scangers and roaming bands of drug addicts.

When one such community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18-year-old black woman, sets off on foot, moving north along the dangerous coastal highways. Lauren is a “sharer,” one who suffers from hyperempathy — the ability to feel others’ pain as well as her own.

“Butler’s spare, vivid prose style invites comparison with the likes of Kate

Wilhelm and Ursula Le Guin.” —Kirkus “Moving, frightening, funny and eerily beautiful.” —The Washington Post

General Fiction Science Fiction

2024

Prodigy is, at its essence, adaptability and persistent, positive obsession. Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment.

Without adaptability, what remains may be channeled into destructive fanaticism. Without positive obsession, there is nothing at all.

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