Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · Jan 9 It’s hard not to think of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower as I watch the news of LA burning. Written in the early 1990s, the novel, which conjures a dystopian vision of environmental and societal collapse, imagines deadly fires sweeping through LA in 2025. 1/3
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But Butler’s prophetic brilliance doesn’t stop there. In Parable of the Talents, the sequel, she envisages a fascist president rising to power under the slogan “Make America Great Again.” 2/3