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{ Feb 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 424 pages Published 1998 Nebula Award for Best Novel (2000) A powerfully wrought novel describing an America permeated with violence, religious persecution, and the will to overcome such adversity, Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents explores the large and small social ramifications of a group of survivors banding together in faith to prevail against anarchy. Butler gives us a well-proportioned fusion of near-future struggle and subtle science fiction, all layered upon an engaging groundwork of human courage, spiritual doctrine, enslavement, and savagery in an anarchistic America. In 2032, five years after losing her family and setting out on a quest to find peace in a chaotic land, Lauren Oya Olamina has gathered more than 60 people in the self-sufficient community called Acorn. Olamina, an African-American hyper-empath (a person who can feel others' pain so intensely it is often incapacitating), is the creator and prophet for the new religion called Earthseed. "God is Change" is Earthseed's basic belief; the religion teaches

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Author

Octavia E. Butler

Publisher

Aspect; Warner Books

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780446610384

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Science Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.21 / 5 (696 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13