I just finished listening to Parable of the Sower, and...jesus christ, you guys. I thought I'd read it before, long ago, but I didn't remember any of it. What an incredible and prescient book.

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#ClimateDiary Keep on thinking of when Lauren in #ParableOfTheSower starts packing a backpack (with seeds etc), just in case they need to leave; and how she then tries to talk to her best friend about it, but this friend just can’t take it. Now in “unchartered territory” for #OceanTemperatures and the prospect of #ElNino kicking in already later this year, i do worry things might get pretty bad already this year; and have started to think (crazy i know!) about my own “backpack” packing 1/2

Well. What a time to be reading #ParableOfTheSower by #OctaviaButler for the first time.

Finished Patable of the Talents and now listening to the Octavia’s Parables podcast and feeling as excited about it as listening to the audiobooks: https://www.readingoctavia.com/ #OctaviaButler #ParableOfTheSower #ParableOfTheTalents #Earthseed #OctaviasParables #podcast

I started reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler overnight and the first section left me quite literally buzzing with excitement: there are few things as exhilarating as coming into close contact with a powerful mind through a book.

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“Your desires, whether or not you achieve them, will determine who you become.”

-Octavia Butler, * Parable of the Sower*. (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998), 294.

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@bookstodon I just finished Parable of the Sower and had to set it aside for awhile as the beginning was so bleak and dark. Is Parable of the Talents the same or is it more hopeful?

Edit - no responses yet and I left out any hashtags so here's a redraft.

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#ParableOfTheSower by #OctaviaEButler

i first read this book - written in 1993 - while Trump was president.
if i had read it earlier, wouldn’t have been half so surprised by the rule of the big 3 buffoons in UK, US, Aus

a cli-fi dystopian novel with a religious story woven into it - but all of that aside - Butler has an astounding level of clarity, clearly expressed, about what makes the (western) world tick

Does anyone know how one can read #octaviabutler ’s notes for “Parable of the Trickster”, without going to Huntington Library?
p.s. thank you @gerrycanavan for your wonderful articles & talks on Butler’s work, which got me this far!

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@mitzee That's on my list of things to watch, but since I don't regularly subscribe to Hulu it'll be one of those things that I'll catch when I do subscribe for a month or two. Thrilling to see #OctaviaButler stories getting TV or movie adaptations, though! Eagerly looking forward to #ParableOfTheSower #TooManyStreamingServices

I just finished reading #ParableOfTheSower and it’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. I can’t wait to read the rest of Octavia’s body of work.

I just finished reading #ParableOfTheSower and it’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. I can’t wait to read the rest of Octavia’s body of work.

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#GoodOmens
#ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar
#ParableOfTheSower
#WarForTheOaks
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#InheritanceTrilogy
#PriceOfThePhoenix (K/S)

Started reading "The Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler. I've steered clear before since it seemed grim. My teenage daughter likes dystopian fiction so I'm hoping she'll read it after me. #octaviabutler #ParableOfTheSower

#7Books to get to know me:
#StraightMan by Richard Russo
#CatsCradle by Kurt Vonnegut
#ParableOfTheSower by Octavia Butler
#RoadstoSata by Alan Booth
#TheWinterofOurDiscontent by John Steinbeck
#JadeCity by Fonda Lee
#Upstream by Mary Ollver
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Started #ParableoftheSower last night before bed. I think last time I tried to pick it up I wasn't in the right mindframe for a dystopia but nowadays everything is dystopia, so it's clicking.

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“Regarded by many as the definitive cli-fi novel, Parable of the Sower 1993 by Octavia Butler imagines what our future could look like if we don't take swift and appropriate action to mitigate climate change.”

(first read this while Trump was President; the socio-economic world Butler describes seems prescient)

So I’m following #NASA #artemismoonprogram right now like allll day long. And I’m also remembering #octaviabutler and her #ParableOfTheSower which briefly made mention of how the space program represents hope. Just pondering. I’m not sure I feel hopeful regarding #spaceexploration but, she definitely has a point.

So I’m following #NASA #artemismoonprogram right now like allll day long. And I’m also remembering #octaviabutler and her #ParableOfTheSower which briefly made mention of how the space program represents hope. Just pondering. I’m not sure I feel hopeful regarding #spaceexploration but, she definitely has a point.

@theneurotrust it's so good! I'm excited for the show to come out! Have you read #ParableOfTheSower yet? It's my favourite of hers so far. But I'm reading her Lillith's Brood books next year and from what I hear they might give Sower a run for its money!