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Sci-fi author Nisi Shawl on Octavia E. Butler's legacy

By Grace Wade

The 91av Book Club has been reading the late Octavia E. Butler’s dystopian novel Parable of the Sower, which opens in Butler’s vision of 2024, a world ravaged by climate change and income inequality. This week, our reporter Grace Wade caught up with Butler’s friend and fellow sci-fi author Nisi Shawl to dig into the story behind the writing of Parable of the Sower, and its extraordinary prescience about today.

 

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