The Portalist's friends at reading app Fable have launched a brand-new book club—and their first pick is a classic.
Fable's sci-fi book club launched on August 2nd with Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents, the second book in the late author's Earthseed duology. The first book in the Earthseed series, Parable of the Sower, is also currently featured in LeVar Burton's Fable book club.
1993's Parable of the Sower is a powerful, prescient novel set in the 2020s. It follows Lauren Olamina, a teenager with hyperempathy who leads a group of survivors across a chaotic, unraveling America. The dystopian classic is currently being adapted for film by A24.
1998's Parable of the Talents is set five years after the first novel, and is told from multiple points of view. Lauren and her followers have founded Acorn, a resilient community established under the spiritual philosophy of Earthseed. But their hard-won home is threatened by a fundamentalist Christian movement seizing the country, spearheaded by a presidential candidate who promises to "Make America Great Again."
Yep, Butler was prophetic.
Whether this is your first or fiftieth time reading Parable of the Talents, Fable's sci-fi club is a great community in which to share comments and highlighted text with other readers across the country.
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