Parable of the Sower (novel)

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Parable of the Sower
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author	Octavia E. Butler
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Parable trilogy
Genre(s)	Dystopian, Science fiction novel
Publisher	Four Walls Eight Windows
Publication date	1993
Media type	Print (Hardcvoer & Paperback)
Pages	299 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	ISBN 0-941423-99-9 (first edition, hardback)
Followed by	Parable of the Talents

Parable of the Sower is the first in a two-book series of science fiction novels written by Octavia E. Butler and published in 1993.

1 Plot introduction
2 Proposed third Parable novel
3 See also
4 Awards and nominations
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Plot introduction

Set in a dystopian future, Parable of the Sower centers on a young woman who possesses what Butler dubbed as hyperempathy – the ability to actually feel the pain and other sensations of others – who develops a benign philosophical and religious system during her childhood in a walled suburb in a Los Angeles where civil society is near collapse. When the suburb's security is compromised, her home is destroyed and her family murdered. She travels north with some survivors to try to start a community where her religion, called Earthseed, can grow.

[edit] Proposed third Parable novel

Butler had planned to write a third Parable novel, tentatively titled Parable of the Trickster, which would have focused on the community's struggle to survive on a new planet. She began this novel after finishing Parable of the Talents, and mentioned her work on it in a number of interviews, but at some point encountered a writer's block. She eventually shifted her creative attention, resulting in Fledgling, her final novel.