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Octavia E. Butler
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Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower follows a teenage girl with a strange empathic affliction as she walks north through a California that has quietly come apart. Written in the early 1990s and set in 2025, it's the rare dystopia whose prophecies have aged into something close to documentary.