![]() ![]() I originally intended that Parable of the Talents be a book about solutions. ![]() Butler herself explained, “Parable of the Sower was a book about problems. Parable of the Talents celebrates the Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community, to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032.Īs Ms. presidency, this is a book about a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder, and where the basic physical and emotional needs of people seem almost impossible to meet. ![]() Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the U.S. Parable of the Talents is the continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina, the hero of Butler’s 1994 novel, Parable of the Sower. Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Group: Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. ![]()
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