Author
Octavia E. Butler
We've read and reviewed Octavia E. Butler's science fiction and dystopian book Parable of the Sower on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
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.