Series
Earthseed
Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, David Brame & John Jennings · 2 novels · 3 graphic novels · 2 short stories · 1993–2025
Octavia E. Butler's Earthseed novels, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, follow Lauren Olamina as she survives the collapse of a climate-ravaged, near-future United States and founds a belief system built on the idea that "God is Change." The two-book series was left unfinished at Butler's death; a planned third novel, Parable of the Trickster, was never completed. Later graphic-novel adaptations retell the same two stories rather than continuing the narrative.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Earthseed at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s4
- 2000s0
- 2010s0
- 2020s3
Shape
2 novels · 3 graphic novels · 2 short stories
4 authors
reads like:science fictionsurvivalnorth americanear futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 7 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Parable of the Sowerdarkest · brightest · calmest · most intense