Sower opens in 2024, which once seemed so futuristic, even in the year 1993 when the book was published. A third in the series, Parable of the Trickster, was not completed before her death. Earthseed contains two novels: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. It is the Earthseed series on which this spotlight focuses, but her other works are relevant and recommended. In addition, she wrote two stand-alone novels, two short story collections, and several essays and speeches. 123-126.) Octavia’s series include the Patternist, Xenogenesis, and Parable (also called the Earthseed). “Positive Obsession.” Bloodchild and Other Stories. New York, Seven Stories, 2005. By the time she was a pre-teen she got her first typewriter, ignoring her Aunt Hazel telling her, “Negroes can’t be writers.” (Source: Butler, Octavia Estelle. A Hugo and Nebula award winner, she wrote fairy tales as a young girl.
Octavia Butler, an African American science fiction writer, was born in 1947 and died in 2006.
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