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- May 2022
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She shakes her head. “There aren’t anywhere near as many as there were. Kids today have no idea what a blaze of light cities used to be—and not that long ago.” “I’d rather have the stars,” I say. “The stars are free.” She shrugs. “I’d rather have the city lights back myself, the sooner the better. But we can afford the stars.”
from Octavia Butler's science fiction novel, Parable of the Sower, published in 1993. This conversation takes place at the beginning of the book between the protagonist, Lauren Oya Olamina, and her stepmother. In the fictional future setting of 2024, the United States has devolved further into authoritarianism, inequality, and chaos. Lauren is a "sharer," which means that she empathizes with others to the extent that she physically feels the emotions of the people around her. If we think of the asterisk as a "sensor", we can see it as a body made entirely of appendages: each spoke a sensitive antenna, or dendrite, or whisker — picking up signals from what is around it.
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you start to see patterns amongst them.
adrienne maree brown and Toshi Reagon created a podcast about Octavia Butler {https://www.readingoctavia.com}, starting with her book The Parable of the Sower, excerpted below.
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