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Parable of the sower Paperback -
by Octavia E. Butler
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- Title Parable of the sower
- Author Octavia E. Butler
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Very good
- Pages 220
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HACHETTE INTL
- Bookseller's Inventory # E03L-00296
- ISBN 9781472263667 / 1472263669
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 0.46 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 1.17 cm)
- Category Fiction - Science Fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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About this book
In acclaimed science-fiction author Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, we find the world in 2025, crippled by global warming, pollution, and socio-cultural tensions.
'Hyperempath' Lauren Olamina, a black teenager living just outside Los Angeles, flees with her community to escape the dangerous pyromaniacs who are destroying the remainders of civilization. As she flees, she begins to preach her philosophy, her religion, called 'Earthseed' to the other refugees.
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists that control the fool
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."
Reader reviews for Parable of the sower
Review summary
Readers widely portray Octavia E. Butler’s near?future dystopia as frighteningly prescient, with its climate chaos, corporate exploitation, and frayed institutions feeling uncomfortably plausible. Many praise the novel’s taut survival narrative, clear prose, and its core themes of community, adaptability, and the provocative Earthseed philosophy, calling it an important, even classic, work alongside 1984 and The Road. Others are put off by the relentless brutality—especially sexual violence—the perceived preachiness of Earthseed, an emotionally restrained narrative voice, and occasional world?building inconsistencies; some found the ending unsatisfying or the tone YA?like. Overall, it’s viewed as a harrowing but hopeful cautionary tale that sparks vigorous debate about faith, change, and collective survival.
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First edition identification
The first edition of Parable of the Sower was published by Four Walls, Eight Windows, in 1993. The First edition states “A FOUR WALLS EIGHT WINDOWS FIRST EDITION and has a full number line starting with 1. The dust jacket has a $19.95 price stamp on the inside front flap.
