The 1993 novel is hailed as one of the best science fiction books of all time, along with George Orwell's '1984' and Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale.' One of the most lauded science fiction ...

Throughout the past year, Reagon has been leading a community-based project—Parable Path Maine—based on the themes of her opera: the effects of environmental ruin and inequality, and the ideas of ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our ...

When composer and multi-instrumentalist Toshi Reagon first received a copy of Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower,” she was already familiar with the late author’s work. But something about it ...

More often, whenever we hear a sermon about the parable of the sower, we get the idea of how we may fail to receive the good but not how sometimes being the hard ground by the way side that prevents ...