• Will@fosstodon.org
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    21 days ago

    @zd9 @vudu
    First, yes everything by Octavia Butler is awesome!
    !!!

    Second, as a warning, imho, parable of the sower is beautiful but pretty harsh- painful. The following one, parable of the talents follows the story arcs into a bit more inspiring (hopeful?) direction, with some more kinda astonishingly correct predictions, and a lot deeper look into the beautiful of how society could be …

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      21 days ago

      Yep that’s what I’ve heard about Parable of the Sower but all the more reason to read it. I work on a GPU cluster called Butler named after her (among others like Hemingway, Murakami, Asimov, and Kafka) so apparently she’s pretty good.

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      21 days ago

      I personally do not believe Parable of the Sower is solarpunk because (for me) it does not demonstrate possible hopeful and sustainable futures.