Parable of the Sower

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Publicado el 7 de marzo de 1993

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978-0-941423-99-1
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Parable of the Sower is a 1993 speculative fiction novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler. It is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel that provides commentary on climate change and social inequality. The novel follows Lauren Olamina, a young woman who can feel the pain of others and becomes displaced from her home. Several characters from various walks of life join her on her journey north and learn of a religion she has discovered and titled Earthseed. In this religion, the destiny for believers is to inhabit other planets, alongside working with the change that the earth is undergoing to survive with the reoccurring message of “God is Change”, referring to the Earth as a god. Parable of the Sower was the winner of multiple awards, including the 1994 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and has been adapted into a concert and a graphic novel. Parable of the …

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Ficção climática presciente de 30 anos atrás

(original, com reprodução de entrevista → sol2070.in/2024/09/livro-parabola-do-semeador-entrevista-octavia-butler/ )

"A Parábola do Semeador" ("Parable of The Sower", 1993) talvez seja o livro mais admirado da estadunidense Octavia Butler. Além dos prêmios que recebeu há 30 anos, voltou a ser muito lido recentemente por ser, além de um ótimo romance, um dos mais vívidos retratos da catástrofe climática — boa parte da história se passa entre 2024 e 2027.

Apesar de não ser leitura fácil, está entre as melhores distopias que já li. O horror dos primeiros anos de um colapso social total devido à emergência climática e ao sistema econômico é chocante a ponto de precisar baixar o livro e respirar de tempos em tempos. Ouvi gente dizendo que não suportou e largou.

É uma predição assustadoramente plausível do que pode acontecer, incluindo até a volta da escravização — a culminação da atual piora constante das condições de …

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Me resulta difícil concretar per què m'ha fascinat tant. La pobresa, la desesperació i la mort regnen en un futur massa proper (en anys i en versemblança), però sempre hi ha un bri d'esperança.

Per molt que diguin de les segones parts, no puc esperar a llegir Parable of the Talents!

This felt like it was published last year

Which feels like a cheesy thing to say in a review about dystopian fiction, but I genuinely didn't realize this book was published in the year 1993 until I read Butler's biography at the back and realized she passed away in 2006. It feels... pertinent

Others have said this is a pretty grim novel. I agree. It hurt to read, quite often. I feel like I've mostly moved out of my dystopian fiction era but this one hooked me a lot harder than most I've read. I haven't finished a book this quickly in quite a while.

I think Parable of the Sower has a lot to say about eco-fatalism, as well as the many "fatalisms" of neoliberalism in general, which it delivers on very well. I also felt like it would have a lot to say about the value of religion, divorced from the way people in …

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Cuando estaba más joven la ficción y la ciencia ficción eran espacios que me hacían sentido para conectar con la imaginación y con la posibilidad de pensar y sentir la vida fuera de límites que percibía en mis presentes.

Como estos ámbitos de la literatura no resonaban tanto en algunas de mis redes cercanas, me alejé un poquito de éstos por algunos años y me metí a libros más teóricos y "serios". Pero desde que empecé a leer a Octavia Butler volví a interesarme por textos de (ciencia) ficción.

Octavia reflexionó sobre la ausencia/invisibilización de mujeres negras en un contexto donde predominaba una ciencia ficción de escritores hombres y blancos. También propuso escenarios que abordaran los pasados-presentes-futuros y que estimularan la imaginación y la creatividad como posibilidades ante las crisis que seguimos viviendo.

En Parable of the sower, Octavia tejió temas como: sensibilidad hacia otrxs seres; críticas …

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I did not feel invested in any of the characters, but I did find them, their stories, and the setting very interesting. In that way I feel conflicted about this book. Another thing is that I was always expecting things to get worse in the next chapter, as the protagonist realizes early on, so I was anxious about continuing before I would read each time. But because I didn't feel invested in the characters, as shocking as the events were I wasn't too bothered by them.

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On a second read, I feel a lot differently than I did the first time around. I can't separate uncomfortable feelings of reading about a teenager basically starting a cult and attracting people who are at their absolute most vulnerable to join. It doesn't sit well with me to read about Lauren's glee to "raise babies in Earthseed." And the intense, intense, dehumanization and otherizing of people using drugs, making them into physically unrecognizable monsters, is something I can't get past. If Lauren has hyper-empathy, and is more sensitive to people in need of help, then why does the buck stop with people using drugs?

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