Why the internet is still obsessed with Octavia E. Butler, years after her death A new biography reveals the innermost thoughts of the groundbreaking novelist whose work in the 1980s and ’90s predicted our lives right now.

We have to be able to face our worst fears in order to predict and plan. In “Parable of the Talents,” published in 1998 and set in the 2020s, Butler introduces a conservative presidential candidate who urges voters to join him in a project to “make America great again.”

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