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Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — now it's also an opera

Visual artist Paul Lewin created this work for Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon's musical setting of Parable of the Sower. Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower was published 30 ...
Fast Company

‘Parable of the Sower’ was written in 1993, but the Octavia Butler classic predicted our climate reality with eerie prescience

Or, at least, she did in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The 1993 dystopian classic recounts the life and times of a Black girl who shares the pain of others. Lauren lives with this burden ...
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The Eerie Prescience of Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower'

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Washington Post/Getty Images As wildfires scorched the Los Angeles area in January 2025, a number of Snopes readers and ...