With the Doomsday Clock ticking ever closer to midnight and threats of nuclear war and illness outbreaks, things are a little scary right now, globally. In 1993, science-fiction writer Octavia E.
Greetings, Dieselfunkateers! Abrams ComicArts has just announced at San Diego Comic-Con the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. Done by the same team of writer Damian ...
Toshi Reagon, the genre-busting folk-gospel-rock musician, first encountered Octavia Butler's Afro-futuristic "Parable of the Sower" in the late 1990s. She was shocked by the novel's prescience. "When ...
When composer and multi-instrumentalist Toshi Reagon first received a copy of Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower,” she was already familiar with the late author’s work. But something about it ...
Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our ...
Octavia Butler once said that she had intended for her novel Parable of the Sower to be cautionary rather than prophetic. Originally published in 1993, the novel takes place in a 2020s United States ...
“Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower,” an opera based on the hailed novel by the late Afrofuturist pioneer, had its New York City premiere on Thursday at Lincoln Center. Toshi Reagon wrote the ...
Black Sci-fi hive, assemble! We have yet another confirmation of an adaptation based on the late, great Octavia Butler’s work. On Monday, Deadline reported that acclaimed director Garrett Bradley ...
Science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler said the novels in her “Parable” series were meant to be cautionary. Her 1993 “Parable of the Sower” follows Lauren Oya Olamina, a teenager born with ...
Critically acclaimed science fiction author, Octavia E. Butler, wrote the dystopian futuristic novel, "Parable of the Sower" in 1994. Her book, which now seems like prophetic text, imagines an America ...
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Discussing Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, influential sci-fi novel. Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel, Parable of the Sower, was selected as the most influential science fiction book of the last 125 ...