Parable of the Sower
Recommended by Brian Boyer, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #26 in Post-Apocalyptic, Ranked #32 in Black Author — see more rankings.
Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. 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,... more
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Brian Boyer One book that’ll be in my bag: Parable if the Sower. It’s a brilliant, prescient read and, like all of Butler’s work, has much to teach us about justice. But it’s also informed my thinking about teamwork, and (surprise!) project management. https://t.co/NrPd9uiV2c (Source)
Rankings by Category
Parable of the Sower is ranked in the following categories:
- #53 in African American
- #39 in California
- #33 in Climate Change
- #82 in Dystopian
- #63 in End Of The World
- #80 in Environmentalism
- #78 in Futurism
- #45 in Pandemic
- #72 in Sci-Fi Horror
- #51 in Utopian
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