Octavia Butler and the Science Fiction of Survival - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author Octavia Butler wrote herself into a genre that had no room for her — at 2 AM, before factory shifts, filling notebooks with affirmations. A deep dive into her writing ...

Octavia Butler and the Science Fiction of Survival
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PARABLE OF THE SOWER: SALVATION AND SERVICE -- a Bill's Bible Basics series

#ParableOfTheSower #Sower #Seed #GodsWord

This Bill’s Bible Basics article can be read at:

https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/parsowr1.html

I loved #ParableoftheSower as well and am reading #ParableoftheTalents now. I’ve been suggesting #OctaviaEButler to everyone. She was amazing. Bizarrely prescient. She’s required reading at this point.

#ParableoftheSower by #OctaviaButler came very highly recommended to me by an old professor of mine and when I finally got around to reading it, I LOVED it! It was a 10/10 for me. #ParableoftheTalents is next ☺️ #TBRuary #booksky #writesky #bookish #booklover #bookrec #bookreview #scifi #dystopian

PARABLE OF THE SOWER: SALVATION AND SERVICE -- a Bill's Bible Basics series

#ParableOfTheSower #Sower #Seed #GodsWord

This Bill’s Bible Basics article can be read at:

https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/parsowr1.html

“Treated” myself to some dystopian nightmares. Somehow I have never read this. Bring on the emotional trauma. #ParableOfTheSower

😭 This was so dark and heavy. So much death and just terrible crimes against all walks of life but especially girls and young women.

#booksky #readingisfundamental #parableofthesower

PARABLE OF THE SOWER: SALVATION AND SERVICE -- a Bill's Bible Basics series

#ParableOfTheSower #Sower #Seed #GodsWord

This Bill’s Bible Basics article can be read at:

https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/parsowr1.html

I bumped that to share this: #Alaska #AlcanWar #OctaviaButler #Canada #Kettling #ParableOfTheSower #ParableOfTheTalents #AlaskaIndependenceParty #Greenland #Arctic #Passports

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We had a great time last night, y'all! Lots of engaging conversations, interesting speculations and love for all things Octavia E. Butler! I was truly in my happy place! #terribaileychats #terribaileywrites #octaviaebutler #ufcame #thelynxbooks #parableofthesower #afrofuturismweek #octaviatried

-enough.
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#booksky #ParableoftheSower

Started listening to the audiobook of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. I’ve read it before, but listening to it in 2026 there is an unsettling eerie/uncanny recognition.
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Octavia E. Butler, author, stands by full bookcase. Photo by Patti Perret, 1984.

“Sometimes writing about a thing makes it easier to stand.”
From Octavia E. Butler’s “Lauren Olamina,”
Parable of the Sower
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#Earthseed #Grief
#MentalHealth #Journaling
#Writing

While I couldn’t really get into Kindred , I can barely put down #ParableOfTheSower 📚

It’s checking all my dystopian future /current boxes . I definitely have a type 😅

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#blackauthor
#booksky
#dystopian

US woman charged with fetal homicide after allegedly inducing own abortion Kentucky woman reportedly ordered medication to end her pregnancy and buried remains in her yard

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#women'srights #healthcare #roevwade #injustice #usisaterroriststate #parableofthesower #fallofdemocracy

OEBLS 2025 Recap A Year in Review for the Octavia E. Butler Literary Society

Thank you for rocking with the OEBLS this year!

Counting down to 2026! Check out our 2025 recap:

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#OctaviaButler #GodIsChange #PositiveObsession #wildseed #parableofthesower

PARABLE OF THE SOWER: SALVATION AND SERVICE -- a Bill's Bible Basics series

#ParableOfTheSower #Sower #Seed #GodsWord

This Bill’s Bible Basics article by Bill Kochman can be read at:

https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/parsowr1.html

#CurrentlyReading Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler and The Singular Life of Aria Patel by Samira Ahmed. #books #reading #BookSky #ParableOfTheSower #OctaviaEButler #TheSingularLifeOfAriaPatel #SamiraAhmed

A quote based meme. A small, yellow tinted photo of Octavia Butler, only her head is seen. Under the photo, white text on a black background, is the following quote. "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 who 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 lef by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery. ~ Octavia Butler"

Daily reminder, GENERAL STRIKE!

Furthermore, ICE must be abolished.

#GeneralStrike #GeneralStrikeUS #AbolishICE #OctaviaButler #ParableOfTheSower

PARABLE OF THE SOWER: SALVATION AND SERVICE -- a Bill's Bible Basics series

#ParableOfTheSower #Sower #Seed #GodsWord

This Bill’s Bible Basics article by Bill Kochman can be read at:

https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/parsowr1.html

PARABLE OF THE SOWER: SALVATION AND SERVICE -- a Bill's Bible Basics series

#ParableOfTheSower #Sower #Seed #GodsWord

This Bill’s Bible Basics article by Bill Kochman can be read at:

https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/parsowr1.html

"'You're crazy as hell,' he said, but I like the soft, quiet way he said it—with amazement rather than ridicule."

- Octavia Butler, "Parable of the Sower"

#octaviabutler #parableofthesower #crazy #madness #womenwriters #sciencefiction

"...I had helped him twice, and now I was a woman. It might take him a while to forgive me for that, no matter how grateful he was."

- Octavia Butler, "Parable of the Sower"

#octaviabutler #parableofthesower #earthseed #sexism #forgiveness #gratitude

PARABLE OF THE SOWER: SALVATION AND SERVICE -- a Bill's Bible Basics series

#ParableOfTheSower #Sower #Seed #GodsWord

This Bill’s Bible Basics article by Bill Kochman can be read at:

https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/parsowr1.html

A book review that turned into a reality check. Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” feels less like fiction and more like a prophecy we’ve been warned about for decades. #ParableOfTheSower #OctaviaButler #BannedBooks #DystopiaOrReality #SmartBrownGirl #PoliticalEducation #BookTok #Bookstagram

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Lauren been eating these lil Earthseed entries right on up. #ParableoftheSower

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