Book review: Parable of the Sower

Originally published at https://shivankaul.com/blog/parable-of-the-sower . Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. Given how seminal Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler is as a work of speculative and dystopian fiction, it’s surprising it took me this long to get to it. I think I was put off by how bleak I’d heard it to be. Also, while I’d loved Bloodchild , it had taken me a week to…