Parable of the sower

Format:

Book

Title:

Parable of the sower

Author:

Butler, Octavia E. author

ISBN:

9781609807191

9781609807214

9780446675505

Publication:

New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2016]

Physical Description:

332 pages ; 22 cm

Series title(s):

Earthseed books.

Number in series:

BK. 1

General Note:

Contents:

Introduction -- 2024 -- 2025 -- 2026 -- 2027

Summary:

"The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman with the hereditary train of 'hyperempathy' -- which causes her to feel others' pain as her own -- sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown."--Book jacket.

Program Information:

Reading Counts RC High School 7.1 16 Quiz: 08885 Guided reading level: NR.

Subject(s):

Dystopias -- Fiction.

African American women -- Fiction.

Psychic ability -- Fiction.

Faith -- Fiction.

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Religion -- Fiction.

California, Southern -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

California, Southern -- Fiction.

Genre:

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Summary

The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and a roaming band of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an eighteen-year-old black woman with the hereditary trait of 'hyperempathy' - which causes her to feel others' pain as her own - sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown.

Author Notes

Science-fiction writer and novelist Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. She earned as Associate of Arts degree from Pasadena City College in 1968 and later attended California State University and the University of California.

Her first novel, Patternmaster, was the first in a series about a society run by a group of telepaths who are mentally linked to one another. She explored the topics of race, poverty, politics, religion, and human nature in her works. She won a Hugo Award in 1984 for her short story Speech Sounds and a Hugo Award and Nebula Award in 1985 for her novella Bloodchild. She received a MacArthur Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The award pays $295,000 over a five-year period to creative people who push the boundaries of their fields. She died in Lake Forest Park, Washington on February 24, 2006 at the age of 58.

(Bowker Author Biography)