Octavia Butler's American parables are a realistic sci-fi vision of life after apocalypse

America's belated embrace of author Octavia Butler has come at a fitting but disturbing time. Her "parables" are uncompromising visions of how we created a cosmic mess — but also what we need to start cleaning up.

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