Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.

— Octavia E. Butler

#OctaviaEButler #OctaviaButler #Earthseed

"... The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything."
-Octavia Butler

(books written between 1993-1998; she died 2/24/2006.)
#octaviabutler #patterns #earthseed #think

a conversation i've had more than twice:

me: have you read the #earthseed books? by Octavia Butler?
them: those are Ursula K. Le Guin
me: oh shoot, i always get those authors confused
them: with the wizards right?
me: what?
them: what?

I've been collecting solar/hopepunk book lists from what a lot of wonderful people have posted here on Fedi. Only some are available as audiobooks on the service that I use so I picked Octavia E. Butler's "Parable of the Sower" (read by Lynne Thigpen). I just finished it.

Oh boy. Like yes, it is an excellent book, but not at all what I primarily associate with solarpunk or hopepunk. It really put the reader through uncomfortable places. Last time I got these feels with "1984".

#EarthSeed

In celebration of Octavia, of truth, and inexhaustible hope.
Verse 54 of Earthseed: The First Book of the Living, the in-world religious text created in "Parable of the Sower" by the novel's protagonist, Lauren Olamina.

#CelebrateOctavia
#parableofthesower2024
#octaviatried
#earthseed

https://youtu.be/tXZ2vHOcHhI?feature=shared

#ScienceFiction #scifi #Earthseed

My review of the novel "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler

https://english.netmassimo.com/2024/07/31/parable-of-the-sower-by-octavia-butler/

Ich habe Octavia Butlers Die Parabel vom Sämann gelesen und war berührt.

Nun lese ich ihr Die Parabel der Talente und möchte nur noch weinen.

Wie nahe sie vor einem Vierteljahrhundert über eine der heute möglichen Zukünfte geschrieben hat.

Wie sehr ich wünsche, dass das nicht wahr wird.

#Earthseed

I looked down
And there you were…

A resplendent moment.
A beautiful contrast.
The insistence of life.

(And the reminder,
“God is change”).

#autumn #photography #poem #earthseed #octaviabutler