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It’s a great story. Thanks for sharing, and tying it into local climate reality. The pessimist in me sees this as taking place in Octavia Butler’s Earthseed universe, 10-15 years before the events of Parable of the Sower.
So.... Everyone likes to quote Parable of the Sower when talking about Trump and the Male America Great Again slogan, which is an apt comparison. The the resistance to change and Earthseed being based on the idea that God is Change? It's dead on.
Would be really wonderful if more Americans* could read Parable of the Talents, thanks * and everyone else, to be fair
As part of a podcast I’m doing I’ve gone back to a book I read at 12 years old and sorta forgot about (the cover here is new for the modern YA market) and it’s shocked me how much I write like it and how it informed my ideas of what contemporary sf should be.
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series and his “I, Robot”, any Ursula K. Leguin, Octavia Butler’s Earthseed series.
Now imagining that tantalising unfinished final Octavia Butler "Parable Of..." novel, but where it gradually emerges Earthseed have been useful idiots for some organisation who wants to do this.
I have a whole headcanon about how the various historical events we're shown as "setting us on the path to the Federation" were all part of a cumulative current that eventually grew into the Trek future, kinda like Butler's Earthseed, rather than a singular event
Agreed! And typically I recommend either her standalone “Kindred” or her Earthseed duology (Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents). Earthseed is especially relevant right now w/ the political landscape in the US. Both can be emotionally tough reads, so fortify yourself before diving in!