A multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner’s powerful saga of survival
and destiny in a near-future dystopian America. One of the world’s
most respected authors of science fiction imagines an apocalyptic
near-future Earth where a remarkable young woman discovers that her
destiny calls her to try and change the world around her. Octavia E.
Butler’s brilliant two-volume Earthseed saga offers a startling
vision of an all-too-possible tomorrow, in which walls offer no
protection from a civilization gone mad. Parable of the Sower: In
the aftermath of worldwide ecological and economic apocalypse,
minister’s daughter Lauren Oya Olamina escapes the slaughter that
claims the lives of her family and nearly every other member of their
gated California community. Heading north with two young companions
through an American wasteland, the courageous young woman faces
dangers at every turn while spreading the word of a remarkable new
religion that embraces survival and change. Parable of the Talents:
Called to the new, hard truth of Earthseed, the small community of the
dispossessed that now surrounds Lauren Olamina looks to her—their
leader—for guidance. But when the evil that has grown out of the
ashes of human society destroys all she has built, the prophet is
forced to choose between preserving her faith or her family. The
Earthseed novels cement Butler’s reputation as “one of the finest
voices in fiction—period” (TheWashington Post Book World).
Stunningly prescient and breathtakingly relevant to our times, this
dark vision of a future America is a masterwork of powerful
speculation that ushers us into a broken, dangerously divided world of
bigotry, social inequality, mob violence, and ultimately hope.
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ISBN
9781504045469
Publisert
2017
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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