KU Common Book 2023-24 - Parable of the Sower: Further Reading: Multimedia Resources

As part of NPR's special report for the UN Conference on Racism, Weekend Edition Saturday's Scott Simon interviews Butler.

"Octavia’s Parables is a podcast where hosts Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown read the works of Octavia Butler one chapter at a time, bringing a modern analysis and scholarship to the work, and offering listeners guiding questions for applying the lessons in their own lives and community work."

How Octavia Butler's Sci-Fi Dystopia Became A Constant In A Man's Evolution

Octavia E. Butler joins Lawrence M. Krauss and David Brinn on an NPR piece about how science fiction writers use science to shape their stories.

Phillips, J. (2002). The Intuition of the Future: Utopia and Catastrophe in Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, 35(2/3), 299–311. https://doi.org/10.2307/1346188

Miller, Jim. (1998) Post-Apocalyptic Hoping: Octavia Butler's Dystopian/Utopian Vision. Science Fiction Studies, 25(2) 336-360.https://www.jstor.org/stable/4240705