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One of Octavia Butler’s Best-Known Works is Now an Opera
Science fiction and spirituality combine in the opera adaptation of "Parable of the Sower."
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Yes, a Black Woman Is Directing Film Adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower—Which Is Timely and Relevant AF
Garrett Bradley (Time, Naomi Osaka) will helm the film based on the novel addressing climate change and social inequality.
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Parable of the Songwriter: Toshi Reagon Explains Why an Octavia Butler-Inspired Opera Is More Relevant Than Ever
When Octavia Butler published Parable of Sower in 1993, she fictionally forecasted the year 2024 as a dystopia under immoral and ignorant leadership, wracked by climate change and corporate and political avarice. In Butler’s vision of America, our so-called civilized society buckles under unbearable wealth inequality, a lack of basic resources like clean water and…