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Parable of the Sower Audiobook
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Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Octavia E. Butler paints a stunning portrait of an all-too-believable near future. As with Kindred and her other critically-acclaimed novels, Parable of the Sower skillfully combines startling visionary and socially realistic concepts. God is change. That is the central truth of the Earthseed movement, whose unlikely prophet is 18-year-old Lauren Olamina. The young woman's diary entries tell the story of her life amid a violent 21st-century hell of walled neighborhoods and drug-crazed pyromaniacs-and reveal her evolving Earthseed philosophy. Against a backdrop of horror emerges a message of hope: if we are willing to embrace divine change, we will survive to fulfill our destiny among the stars. For her elegant, literate works of science fiction, Octavia E. Butler has been compared to Toni Morrison and Ursula K. LeGuin. Narrator Lynne Thigpen's melodious voice will hold you spellbound throughout this compelling parable of modern society.
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“A powerful story of hope and faith…a parable of modern society…excellent.“
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“Parable of the Sower is a stunner. It’s a terrifying vision of a dismal future…and an eerily dangerous parallel to our present path.”
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“A prophetic odyssey.”
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“Lauren’s journey through the wilds beyond walled middle-class enclaves reminds us that ecological pressures lay some lower than others, while inviting us to imagine more egalitarian ways of organizing future worlds.”
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“Narrator Lynne Thigpen delivers a performance perfectly appropriate to the proceedings: solemn, thoughtful, and pointedly challenging to listeners’ notions of society and religion.”
— AudioFile
Awards
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A Huffington Post Pick of Novels about Climate Change
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Finalist for the 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novel
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A New York Magazine Top 10 Books Pick
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A Gizmodo Pick of Immersive Audiobooks That Will Transport You to Another World
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A #1 Amazon.com bestseller
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A LeVar Burton Book Club Pick
Parable of the Sower Listener Reviews
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Sue Street, 10/29/2024
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Hannah Hollahan, 1/8/2024
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Skyler, 12/17/2023
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Kevin Wohlmut, 11/26/2020
About Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, one of very few African American women in the field. She won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards and in 1995 was the first science fiction writer ever to receive the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant.
About Lynne Thigpen
Lynne Thigpen (1948–2003), an Earphones Award–winning narrator, was a multitalented actress who performed in community theater and university theater productions while attending the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. During her thirty-year career, she went on to appear in nearly forty movies and numerous television series.