Oct 14, 2017 - Explore mizztjinfo's board "Octavia Butler Quotes", followed by 152 people on Pinterest. Butler presents her readers with a strong female protagonist in Larkin.

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Parable of the Talents is set in the aftermath of a socioeconomic and climatic calamity that has shaken the world to its core and is a direct sequel to Butler's Parable of the Sower, in itself a harrowing apocalyptic journey along the highways of an America that has disintegrated into violence, anarchy and rampant drug use. ― Octavia E. Butler, quote from Parable of the Talents “There must be good marriages somewhere, but to me, marriage had the feel of people tolerating each other, enduring each other because they were afraid to be alone or because each was a habit that the other couldn't quite break.” Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became in 1995 the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.. Butler was born in Pasadena, California.After her father died, she was raised by her widowed mother. Parable of the Talents (1998) From the 1998 Four Walls Eight Windows edition of Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler: Parable of the Talents celebrates the usual Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, and separation and community, to astonishing effect in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032. Parable of the Talents is a science fiction novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler, published in 1998. It is the second in a series of two, a sequel to Parable of the Sower .

Parable of the Talents is American writer Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel.