“I still can’t see change or entropy as God,” Travis said, bringing the conversation back to Earthseed. “Then show me a more pervasive power than change,” I said.
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
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Read the books "the man" calls dangerous. Be curious. Be defiant. Read Kindred — Octavia Butler’s powerful time-travel story that forces you to confront history and empathy. wix.to/yHRDpY2

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Just in time for Black Speculative Fiction Month!

Dr. Alyssa Collins will be speaking about Octavia E. Butler's Survivor tonight at 9 PM ET on Sistah SciFi’s Instagram Live

IG handle: @sistahscifi

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Today is the first day of #BannedBooks week!

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Banned Books Week is ® American Library Association. Let Books Be is ©2026 American Library Association.

“All that you touch / You Change. / All that you Change / Changes you.” - Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

You’ve spent years changing things for everyone else. This season, let yourself be one of the things that changes. #OctaviaButler

📚 How did you meet Octavia E. Butler? Andrea Hairston, Jewelle Gomez, Duane Horton and Eboni Dunbar told us at the San Francisco Public Library. One photocopied all of Kindred. One walked off with a copy.

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#OctaviaButler wrote the future.
People feared Orwell's 1984 but the real warning was in 1993's Parable of the Sower.

Each month we bring you celebrity and famous #bookclub picks. 📚

October Current Picks ✨

The Audacious:
The Disappears by #MarlonJames

Black Men Read:
Laws of Solomon by #EriqLaSalle

Elle Cordova’s Sci-Fi:
Fledgling by #OctaviaButler

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Post a book cover once a day for a year. Only share books that you think are amazing and others would enjoy reading.
Life is a journey!
Share some of the benchmarks along your path!

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While we are talking about fiction that resonates & starts in fictional California, #OctaviaButler & #ParableOfTheSower would like a word. Please read these books. Think about what they say about where we are headed. Choices matter. Inaction is still a choice. #ArtPredictsLife

"Sometimes the only thing more dangerous than frightened, confused, desperate people looking for solutions is frightened, confused, desperate people finding and settling for truly bad solutions." --Octavia Butler #octaviabutler

Rereading this masterpiece by #OctaviaButler.

Sad day 😔. I'm trying not to finish Survivor too quickly because it's the last piece of Octavia Butler's fiction I will ever read for the first time.

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As always, somehow Octavia knows where I’m at from 33 years ago.
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her other book is “parable of the talents” #OctaviaButler 

S3E4: We usually think that hope is a good thing, a source of comfort and strength in trouble. But is it? The Problem with Hope considers ways in which hope is deceptive or foolish or oppressive. youtu.be/AkvTBay-i2c #Hope #Ethics #Religion #OctaviaButler #Tillich

#OctaviaButler was so on the nose.

📚 I read Parable of the Sower when I was young, during my dystopian phase.

Apparently, that phase never ended. 😂

Reading it now, the parallels to today feel a little too fucking familiar.

Some books get scarier with age.

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S3P4: We usually think that hope is a good thing, a source of comfort and strength in trouble. But is it? The Problem with Hope considers ways in which hope is deceptive or foolish or oppressive. materialsoul24.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/s... #Hope #Ethics #Religion #OctaviaButler #Tillich