448 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 2001
Parable of the Talents is a science fiction novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler, published in 1998. It is the second in a series of two, a sequel to Parable of the Sower. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Powerful
Powerful, and heartbreaking.
Also amazingly prescient. Butler died 10 years before Trump was elected but here he is in all his Christo-fascist glory.
The compelling plausibility of her near-future dystopia is sharply contrasted with the laughably un-compelling Earthseed belief system that motivates the main character and which, I think, we are supposed to accept uncritically (why else would she try to make us read all those verses?)
