I saw this several years ago at UNC Memorial Hall when it was still in development, so I'm looking forward to seeing how it has evolved and how it fills the much larger space of David Geffen.

#opera #ParableOfTheSower #OctaviaEButler #ToshiReagon #BerniceJohnsonReagon #DavidGeffen

@sans-dec

C'est excellent ! La suite aussi.
Je regrette qu'elle ait laissé tomber la série.
Après, je comprends : après une vie un peu difficile, elle avait fini par avoir une petite aisance sécurisante et elle a juste eu envie de profiter de la vie.

Super #autrice !
#OctaviaEButler
#vendredilecture

Je viens de recevoir en cadeau le numéro 108 de la revue de #SF #Bifrost, sur #OctaviaButler.

Je ne connaissais pas du tout cette autrice, mais je suis heureux de la découvrir !

#OctaviaEButler #ScienceFiction

And #FinishedReading A Seed to Harvest by #OctaviaEButler

Of the two series, I think I prefer the other, but this one does have something interesting to say too (:*

Almost a pun, though unintended...

On to #AmReading A Seed to Harvest (The Patternist sequence) by #OctaviaEButler

@fivebooks

#Reading #Kindred (pub 1979) by #OctaviaEButler after #Watching season 1 of the TV adaptation (2023) (on #Disney+ in Australia).

Riveting time travel story; Dana is transported from modern LA to a Maryland plantation in 1815.

Was first drawn to the TV series by the mention of Ms Butler, having read her two Parable books while Trump was President.

“The “Parable” books, which were written in the 1990s and set in the 2020s, have seen a resurgence in popularity in recent years. Butler’s vision of the near future in these works – with society on the brink due to looming environmental catastrophe, unchecked corporate greed and worsening economic inequality – seems prescient…”

https://theconversation.com/how-octavia-e-butler-mined-her-boundless-curiosity-to-forge-a-new-vision-for-humanity-185342

#Watching #Kindred on Disney+
8 parts based on the 1979 novel by #OctaviaEButler

Story begins in 2016 … then Dana suddenly finds herself in the year 1815 (on a plantation). Just as suddenly, she is back in 2016.

The how and why are intriguing, but as we expect with an Octavia E Butler story (cos the woman was a genius) there are layers upon layers to explore.

Kindred is not just “plantation porn” and 3 themes are immediately obvious;
*how white privilege operates when circumstances change; and
*how “the whole is other than the sum of its parts” (which is to say, changing the behaviour of one individual has different consequences from changing a whole system); and
* how different world-views can really be

As I’ve not read the novel yet I can’t speak to Ms Butler’s intentions, just about the TV adaptation. But I HAVE to read the book now because the show wasn’t renewed and I really really really want more.
(it’s nowhere near as creepy as the trailer suggests)

https://youtu.be/II_mroKXF4o

Published in 1979, a journey back in time, I stand thinking of how appropriate it is for current day. Possibly the future as well.

#Books #RecommendedReading #OctaviaEButler #Kindred

@joannaholman

#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

A thoroughly enjoyable, compact collection of #ShortStories and #Essays from one of the grand dames of science fiction.

Nautittava kuuden novellin kurkistus Octavia E. Butlerin lyhyen muodon teksteihin. Mukana niin novelleja kuin pari esseetä, mikä oli hauska ja erilainen valinta.

#Bookstodon #Kirjamastodon #SciFi #OctaviaEButler #Novellikokoelma

What a wonderful little piece on Octavia E. Butler’s life and stories: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/17/arts/octavia-butler-vision-kindred.html (great visuals as well)

#OctaviaButler #OctaviaEButler #Earthseed

Happy #Friyay!
Welcome #Twitter expats.

Post your #SpecialInterests as hashtags to find your people.

#OctaviaEButler
#TalkingHeads
#Ukulele
#SocialMediaPlatformsNotRunByMegalomaniacs
#DoñaAngela

😺🌵🐝

@lazcorp @antiprofa

#ParableOfTheSower by #OctaviaEButler #FavouriteBooks #CliFi

“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)

@elckerlieke #JacquesPrévert
#FransDeWaal
#OctaviaEButler
#IsaacAsimov

Saturday morning reads:

This, from Octavia Butler's 'Kindred', hit me hard.

History matters. All of it, and especially the bits that make us most uncomfortable with ugly truths.

#books
#kindred
#octaviaebutler
#fiction
#saturdaymorningreading

A few of my favorite #novels?
#LesMisérables
#MyraBreckinridge
#Lacasadelosespíritus
#cienañosdesoledad
#Elbesodelamujeraraña
#QueenOfTheDamned
Anything by #OctaviaEButler