Parable of the Sower Boxed Set by Octavia Butler | Black Sci-Fi

  This stunning boxed set combines the acclaimed sci-fi author's two award-winning Parable books. It's the ultimate present for Octavia Butler enthusiasts, featuring the best-selling Nebula-prize nominee, Parable of the Sower, and its sequel, Parable of the Talents.  Follow the journey of Lauren Olamina, a "hyperempathic" woman who must navigate a world that has lost its humanity.   In Sower, the place is California, where small walled communities protect from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicts. Lauren sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown. The book has an introduction by feminist, journalist, activist, and author Gloria Steinem. Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic 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. It is told in the voice of Lauren Olamin