![]() Our protagonist is Lauren Olamina, an adolescent ‘hyperempath’ who feels others’ pain every time she observes them being hurt. Parable of the Sower is, at least on the surface, a less ambitious text. Kindred, with its time travel plot and strained interracial relationships, is a complex novel about the psychology of race. ![]() This is my second Butler read (I reviewed Kindredlast year), and from the first, I found it a simpler narrative than expected. However, the narrative remains relevant to discussions about climate change, and black protagonists are, to this day, uncommon in science fiction. Reading it nearly 30 years after publication, it is difficult to ignore that the setting – a drought-ridden future America crumbling into violence – has been explored many times since, and perhaps analysed with greater depth than can be found in these pages. Parable of the Sower is an apocalyptic dystopia, published in 1993. ![]()
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