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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed #2)

Octavia E. Butler

Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

Rating: 4.25 | 20543 Users | 1760 Reviews

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ISBN:	0446610380 (ISBN13: 9780446610384)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Earthseed #2
Characters:	Lauren Olamina
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Nebula Award for Best Novel (1999), James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List (1998)

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This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in socially and economically depressed California in the 2030s. Convinced that her community should colonize the stars, Lauren and her followers make preparations. But the collapse of society and rise of fanatics result in Lauren's followers being enslaved, and her daughter stolen from her. Now, Lauren must fight back to save the new world order.

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Title	:	Parable of the Talents (Earthseed #2)
Author	:	Octavia E. Butler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2001 by Warner Books (NY) (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Dystopia. Fantasy. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Speculative Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy

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Everyone should read this book in 2017 and be disturbed by how realistic it could be. I think it's more realistic than Handmaid's Tale, It Can't Happen Here, and 1984 combined.

We learn more and more about the physical universe, more about our own bodies, more technology, but somehow, down through history, we go on building empires of one kind or another, then destroying them in one way or another. We go on having stupid wars that we justify and get passionate about, but in the end, all they do is kill huge numbers of people, maim others, impoverish still more, spread disease and hungerThe above passage is the essence of what Octavia Butler wanted to communicate with

One thing Octavia excels at is looking at how small actions change people. Another thing Octavia excels at is being relentless af. This isnt my fave OB but I find myself wishing she were still alive and writing. Small tangent: the tyrant president in this used Make America Great Again as a catchphrase. OB wrote this in the 1990s.

4.5, bumped to the 5 side after reflection---Without a doubt one of the most comprehensive and successful sci-fi/dystopian novels I've ever read - and that's saying something, considering how dystopia has proliferated the markets for the past 5-10 years. It didn't get a full five stars because, 1) it is incredibly difficult to read because the subject matter is so, so grim; 2) I just could not reconcile the irrational and dedicated disgust Larkin/Asha harbored for her mother even after she read

This book was a mind blower. I liked it how at the end of the story the scripture of The Parable of Talents, Matthew 25:14-30, was printed.But mostly this book makes you think of how the world is today. Some of Butlers fiction is turning into a reality. And what is especially unnerving, is that she wrote this in 1998. There is hope throughout the story, and hope is sometimes the one thing that gets us through.

Reviewed after re-reading.This is a wonderful sequel to Octavia Butlers parable of the sewer. It is still unapologetically horrifying but features the growth of the earthseed religion and the American dissent into religious fundamentalism and signs of eventual recovery. Id loved the alternations of Laurens journals, watching her go through further turmoil and continue to grow up and refine her beliefs, and the reflections of her adult daughter whose separation from her mother has given her a

I think both this and its predecessor Parable of the Sower are particularly relevant reads at this time. This one is superior to the first, in my opinion. It did a lot to make me feel absolutely terrible, but I do mean that in a positive way.RTC.