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Parable of the sower

In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.

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  • "In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages."@en
  • "In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages."
  • "Forced to flee an America where anarchy and violence have completely taken over, empath Lauren Olamina-- who can feel the pain of others and is crippled by it-- becomes a prophet carrying the hope of a new world and a new faith christened "Earthseed.""@en
  • ""When unattended environmental and economic crises lead to social chaos, not even gated communities are safe. In a night of fire and death Lauren Olamina, a minister's young daughter, loses her family and home and ventures out into the unprotected American landscape. But what begins as a flight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny...and the birth of a new faith."--P. [4] of cover."
  • "In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren's father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others. When fire destroys their compound, Lauren's family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Octavia E. Butler including rare images from the author's estate."@en
  • "Set thirty years in the future, a young woman suffering from hyperempathy, to feel others' pain as well as her own, makes a dangerous journey north from Southern California."
  • "The odyssey of a sensitive young woman in a world that has become almost completely dehumanized. Set in California in the years 2024 through 2027."@en

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  • "Uncorrected Proofs (Printing)"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Science fiction, American"
  • "Fantastyka naukowa amerykańska"@pl
  • "Dystopias"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Science fiction"
  • "Science fiction"@en
  • "Genres littéraires"

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  • "Parable of the sower"
  • "Parable of the sower"@en
  • "La parabole du semeur"
  • "Parable of the Sower"@en
  • "Przypowieść o siewcy"@pl
  • "Parable of the sower : a novel"@en

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