This first Earthseed novel by ground-breaking writer Octavia E.
Butler is simply sublime' '
Reading these books will change your life' '
A finely crafted work, rife with emotional power, horrifying in its believability, with a message that cannot be ignored'.
I don't know how I missed it before now' '
A masterpiece by a matchless artist.
I couldn't put it down' '
Emotionally and viscerally alive and challenging.
Incredible.
What readers are saying about Octavia Butler: '
Kindred was written in 1979 but could have been written last year.
All that you Change, Changes you.
All that you touch, You Change.
Soon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever.
Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves.
Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others as her own, records everything she sees of this broken world in her journal.
America is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe.
We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.
This is what makes Parable of the Sower even more impressive than it was when first published'
Gloria Steinem We are coming apart. '
If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's one written in the past that has already begun to come true.
If you were glued to The Handmaid's Tale, you'll love this beautiful new edition of a seminal American classic.
Butler feel like a prophetic nod to our current world.
This first Earthseed novel by ground-breaking writer Octavia E
