Parable of the Sower

Multiple award winner Octavia E. Butler’s astonishing novels have made her a powerful, acclaimed voice in women’s fiction, African-American literateure, and modern science fiction. Parable of the Sower is her stunning portrait of an all-too-believable near future, a twenty-first century of horror-- and hope.

God is Change

Lauren Olamina is an empath, crippled by the pain of others. Cloistered inside a neighborhood enclave in a U.S. where the distance between the haves and hte have-nots has widened to a gaping chasm, she lives a protected life. But one night, violence explodes, and the walls of her neighborhood are smashed, annihilating Lauren’s family and friends-- all she loves and knows. Now the empath must face the world outside. Leading a tiny band of desparate followers through a thousand miles of Hell, she is a prophet bearing nothing but the promises of a new life and a new faith...Earthseed.