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Parable of the Talents

winner of the Nebula Award
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    • Octavia E. Butler
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A special hardback edition of Octavia E. Butler's extraordinarily prescient novel, with new cover artwork by Monet Alyssa.

'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEM

In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.

Asha was born into a broken world. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother.

In her journals, Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter, her community and the revelation that led her to found a new faith that teaches 'God Is Change'. But under a tyrannical religious regime who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat, Lauren knows she must soon either sacrifice her daughter and her followers - or forsake the beliefs that could transform human destiny.

WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
  • Published: Aug 20 2019
  • 196 x 128mm
  • ISBN: 9781472263650

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Press Reviews

  • Junot Diaz

    One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had
  • Guardian
    Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision
  • New York Times
    [Her] evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human
  • The Pool
    No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential... If you've ever tweeted "All Lives Matter", someone needs to shove Kindred into your hand, and quickly
  • Harlan Ellison
    Kindred is that rare magical artifact . . . the novel one returns to, again and again
  • Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
    One cannot finish Kindred without feeling changed. It is a shattering work of art
  • BBC
    [A] must-read novel
  • Refinery 29
    Everyone should read at least one novel by the grand dame of science fiction, and Kindred is a perfect (and harrowing and disturbing and brilliant) place to start
  • Tor
    The immediate effect of reading Octavia Butler's Kindred is to make every other time travel book in the world look as if it's wimping out... This is a brilliant book, utterly absorbing, very well written, and deeply distressing. It's very hard to read, not because it's not good but because it's so good
  • Kirkus
    A searing, caustic examination of bizarre and alien practices on the third planet from the sun
  • Los Angeles Times
    One of the most original, thought-provoking works examining race and identity
  • Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
    If you haven't read Butler, you don't yet understand how rich the possibilities of science fiction can be
  • Village Voice
    Butler's books are exceptional
  • Cory Doctorow

    Few writers in our field are so good at blending page-turners with philosophical questions so seamlessly
  • Independent
    A dark, compelling and still horribly resonant time travel story
  • Starburst
    Impossible to turn away from once you've devoured the first few pages