Octavia Butler Saw the Future
Octavia E. Butler’s novels Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) unfortunately for us, reflect the country with…
Octavia Butler Saw the Future
Octavia E. Butler’s novels Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) unfortunately for us, reflect the country with brutal accuracy.
She didn’t need to imagine aliens or time traveling tropes to show a collapsing, apocalyptic civilization. She just watched the news, squinted into the near future, and wrote down exactly what she saw coming.
Thirty years later, we’re living it.