Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler Press Reviews

One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had -- Junot Diaz

Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision - Guardian

A dark, compelling and still horribly resonant time travel story - Independent

[Her] evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human - New York Times

No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential... If you've ever tweeted All Lives Matter , someone needs to shove Kindred into your hand, and quickly - The Pool

Kindred is that rare magical artifact . . . the novel one returns to, again and again - Harlan Ellison

One cannot finish Kindred without feeling changed. It is a shattering work of art - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

[A] must-read novel - BBC

Everyone should read at least one novel by the grand dame of science fiction, and Kindred is a perfect (and harrowing and disturbing and brilliant) place to start - Refinery 29

The immediate effect of reading Octavia Butler's Kindred is to make every other time travel book in the world look as if it's wimping out... This is a brilliant book, utterly absorbing, very well written, and deeply distressing. It's very hard to read, not because it's not good but because it's so good - Tor

A searing, caustic examination of bizarre and alien practices on the third planet from the sun - Kirkus

One of the most original, thought-provoking works examining race and identity - Los Angeles Times

Impossible to turn away from once you've devoured the first few pages - Starburst

If you haven't read Butler, you don't yet understand how rich the possibilities of science fiction can be - Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Butler's books are exceptional - Village Voice

Few writers in our field are so good at blending page-turners with philosophical questions so seamlessly -- Cory Doctorow -