Wednesday, August 3, 2011

John Jude Palencar's cover art for Octavia Butler's Earthseed series

The 1995 February mass-market cover for Parable of the Sower.

For cover image and more information on this edition, click thumbnail to go to publication listing on Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

The 2001 November mass-market cover for Parable of the Talents.

For cover image and more information on this edition, click thumbnail to go to publication listing on Internet Speculative Fiction Database.


Suggested by Queena Deboever.

In Parable of the Sower, an independent, intelligent young black woman living in a dystopic near-future America survives the brutal destruction of her California community. She leads a band of followers to seek sanctuary in the Pacific Northwest. In Parable of the Talents, Lauren Olamina, the heroine of Parable of the Sower, tries to hold her low tech community together against the onslaught of violent religious right extremists armed with advanced gadgets for the physical control and torture of fellow human beings.

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