US Parable of the Sower/Hamilton: Home

The following links and attachments are for reviews of Parable of the Sower from the time it was orginally published:

Book Reviews: Parable of the Sower (The Black Scholar, 1994)

Giving Them All Some of That New-Time Religion: PARABLE OF THE SOWER by Octavia E. Butler (LA Times, 1994)

Science Fiction (New York Times, 1994)

Parable of the Sower (Publishers Weekly, 1993)

EBSCO Literary Reference Center

Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents (Masterplots, 2010)

Octavia Butler's Parables (Scraps of Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, and Dystopia, 2000)

Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents (Masterplots II: African American Literature, 2008)

JSTOR

Parable of a 21st Century Religion: Octavia Butler's Afrofuturistic Bridge between Science and Religion (Obsidian III, 2006)

Speculative Archives: Histories of the Future of Education (Pacific Coast Philology, 2014)

Troubling Ecology: Wangechi Mutu, Octavia Butler, and Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism (Critical Ethnic Studies, 2016)

These articles discuss some of the lasting impacts and attitudes regarding Parable

A Prescient Sci-Fi 'Parable' Gets Set to Music (NY Times, 2018)

Octavia Butler's Prescient Vision of a Zealot Elected to 'Make America Great Again' (The New Yorker, 2017)