Parable of the Sower

VERY GOOD condition — DUST JACKET: Minor wear & tear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Very small chip to top outside corner, front panel. Minor staining to top edge, reverse.
BOARDS: Shelf rubbing to bottom edges, primarily at spine. BOOK: Light foxing to textblock page edges, primarily head and foredge. Several small spots/smudges to outside edge of FFEP. Please inspect photos closelfy for condition details.

Here on offer is a very nice copy of Octavia Butler's award-winning novel, Parable of the Sower, the first in the Parable series and the winner of the New York Times "Notable Book of the Year" award in 1994. This copy is a 1st trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Four Walls Eight Windows in 1993. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve.

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"This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author 'pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale' and includes a foreword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times).

When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions.

Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny."

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Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.

Born in Pasadena, California, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. Extremely shy as a child, Butler found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. She began writing science fiction as a teenager. Butler attended community college during the Black Power movement. While participating in a local writer's workshop, she was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop, then held in Pennsylvania, which focused on science fiction.

She soon sold her first stories and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author to be able to write full-time. Her books and short stories drew the favorable attention of the public, and awards soon followed. She also taught writer's workshops, and eventually relocated to Washington. Butler died of a stroke at the age of 58. Her papers are held in the research collection of the Huntington Library in Southern California.

The above text was taken from, respectively, Grand Central publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.