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The first Earthseed novel by ground-breaking writer Octavia E. Butler that feel like a prophetic nod to our current world.
We are coming apart. We’re a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.
America is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe. Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others as her own, records everything she sees of this broken world in her journal.
Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves.
Soon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever.
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The first Earthseed novel by ground-breaking writer Octavia E. Butler that feel like a prophetic nod to our current world.
We are coming apart. We’re a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.
America is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe. Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others as her own, records everything she sees of this broken world in her journal.
Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves.
Soon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever.
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Octavia E. Butler was an American science fiction writer, who received multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for her novels and short stories. She explored themes of humanity and discrimination through speculative worlds, making her arguably the most powerful African American writer in science fiction canon.