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75 Books Challenge for 2009 : legxleg's 2009 reading part 2		89	legxleg, Yesterday 8:13am
Science Fiction Fans : Post apocalyptic recommendations		97	RBeffa, Friday 11:18pm
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : Tanenbaum's list for 2009		23	tanenbaum, November 26
Book talk : Teenage Books		18	Peepers12377, November 21
1010 Category Challenge : fannyprice's 2010 1010 Challenge		40	blondierocket, November 5
Science Fiction Fans : Female Authors		87	LamontCranston, November 4
The Green Dragon : October 2009 Reads		130	MrsLee, November 1
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : legxleg 2009 reading		208	legxleg, October 3
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Picnicgal's 2009 Book List		14	Prop2gether, July 29
Dystopian novels : Distopian classics?		55	jay2008, July 4
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : kath's reads 2009		249	nannybebette, June 20
The Green Dragon : 1001 Science Fiction Books to Read Before a Supernova Kills Us All		127	hearts3134, June 12
Science Fiction Fans : Religion and Science Fiction		59	jimroberts, May 14
Science Fiction Fans : First person narratives		33	Carnophile, May 6
Girlybooks : Science Fiction written by women		47	AquariusNat, April 28
Science Fiction Fans : Strong female leads?		75	tangerinealert, February 28
Group Reads - Sci-Fi : Group Reads Book 4		79	LolaWalser, February 12
999 Challenge : seanelavelle's 999 Challenege		27	seanelavelle, February 11
999 Challenge : Kuroh's		24	Elee, January 20
Science Fiction Fans : Favorite post apocalyptic or dystopian future novel?		121	thesmellofbooks, December 2008
Group Reads - Sci-Fi : Coffeehouse		193	CD1am, September 2008
Science Fiction Fans : Your Essential Science Fiction List		153	falkman, September 2008
Atwoodians : Oryx and Crake: Group Read August 2008		25	avaland, September 2008
The Green Dragon : I've lost the currently reading thread - so here's number errr lots		272	Busifer, September 2008
Girlybooks : What books by and/or about women are you reading May-August 08?		253	TerrierGirl, August 2008
The Green Dragon : Rereading?		37	Busifer, August 2008
Dystopian novels : Group Reads - Anyone Interested?		25	avaland, July 2008
The Green Dragon : May's New Books - I Got Some!		109	clamairy, June 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - April. 2008		388	milbaby, May 2008
Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : Five books for a Non-SF Reader		30	imager, March 2008
Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : Recommendations for a return reader...		23	reading_fox, March 2008
Dormant: The Green Dragon : Best books, and worst books, that you read in 2007		61	margaretplays, February 2008
Dormant: The Green Dragon : Tell us what you are reading now, part III		394	WillSteed, February 2008
Dormant: Happy Heathens : More scary lunacy from Mike Up-chuk-a-bee		52	BGP, January 2008
Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : sussabmax's 83 books		85	Beary_Bookwormish, January 2008
Dormant: The Green Dragon : So, just what are you reading there, Missy/Mister? [Part 4]		216	aviddiva, January 2008
Dormant: Girlybooks : What book by and/or about women are you reading Sept-Dec 07		52	nohrt4me, January 2008
Dormant: Happy Heathens : John Scalzi vs. the Creationist Museum		40	imayb1, November 2007
Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : What is your fave book/author?		50	sussabmax, September 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 25 Aug		151	Cariola, September 2007
Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : What are some of the books you plan to read?		45	sussabmax, August 2007
Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Stories		21	imager, July 2007
Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : What You're Reading In The Genre June 07		28	EddieTol, June 2007
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Dormant: SF & Fantasy : LA Bibliothèque idéale de Science fiction par Matt Groening		2	Arwenya, June 2007
Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : Recommendations, Of a Modern Sort		39	avaland, May 2007
Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : Anything like Kim Stanley Robinson?		7	fikustree, April 2007
Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Ryvre's 100		9	ryvre, April 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 27 January 2007		156	amandameale, February 2007

For a good survival book try Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler which is the first of an unfinished series, yet complete in an of itself. Not a terribly long read but very good. Their is also Stephen King's Stand which is survival/post-apocalyptic and quite long.

I'm just into Robledo, CA, in Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler. American civilisation is coming to an end, and Lauren has her own ideas about what should happen. I probably shouldn't be reading this, but I've been feeling a pull to read it for some weeks, even though it'll just depress ...

... Collins (3) Daughters of the North – Sarah Hall (4) The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood (5) Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler (6) A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (7) Animal Farm – George Orwell (8) Jennifer Government – Max B ...

I enjoyed Parable of the Sower but dystopian novels create too much anxiety in me. Have you read Kindred? That was my favorite Butler. It's funny, I don't read much SF, but of the ones I've liked best, they've all included time-travel.

... erFactory.com/ezt/t/wRahJE9/savings.png"> Book 162 is Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler, the sequel to Parable of the Sower, and it was another fantastic one. Lauren has started a small community that follows Earthseed, her new religion, but the newly elected president is ...

... who is one of the first women tapped for that fun old trope, a super secret society that runs the world. Book 160 is Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, a fantastic dystopic novel set in the very near future. Society has fallen into chaos, and gated communities have become walled ...

... Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn 41. Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn 42. The Last Command by Timothy Zahn 43. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler 44. Grave Peril by Jim Butcher

Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Speaking of Mara and Dann, Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler has many parallels to it, despite being set more or less during an apocalypse (in a way MaD is also set during an apocalypse, just the one ending the civilization that was established after the apocalypse that erased 'our' ...

Some of Octavia E. Butler's works are in 1st person. A few that come to mind are: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents Kindred Fledgling

... Fall of IleRien trilogy are great. Do you know Octavia E. Butler? I really enjoyed her near future dystopic novel Parable of the Sower. A strong female protagonist, and a great world building. Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann has a lot of parallels to it, despite being a far future ...

Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler take place, oh , about 20 minutes into a dystopian future. In reaction to this terrible setting, the main character founds a religion. I also recommend Dune, Calculating God, The Sparrow, Children of God and A C ...

... Merchants by Frederick Pohl and CM Kornbluth On the Beach by Nevil Shute The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Rising Stars by J. Michael Straczynski China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh The Square Root of Man by William Tenn ...

Parable of the Sower and it's sequel Parable of the Talents are gorgeous books, among my favourites - I'd recommend you read Sower, Tad, and see if its more to your liking. I have a thing for post-apocalyptic writing (I have The Pesthouse by Jim Crace in my to-read pile, and am looking ...

... to go online with my library and place loan requests for books from other locations. I've just placed holds for Kindred, Parable of the Sower, and Dawn. Why do I do this to myself?

>123 Tad, the Xenogenesis saga, which you read part of, isn't her best work. I think Parable of the Sower is pretty much the best OEB, and would recommend it. Kindred is a precursor to Quantum Leap, only with an interesting main character in an interesting situation. Scott Bakula ...

... as the series progresses. If you like dystopian/post-apocalyptic books, Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing and Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler are great stories with strong female leads, and so is He, She and It by Marge Piercy. Non of them particularly ass-kickin ...

... John Crowley The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card Dawn, Octavia Butler The Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler So we need at least one more title to get a third vote...

Here is what has been nominated so far: The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Dawn by Octavia E. Butler Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Hello Summer, Goodbye - Michael Coney Lord Byron's Novel - John Crowley Camp Concentration - Thomas M. Disch Divine Endurance - Gwyn ...

Here is what has been nominated so far: The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Dawn by Octavia E. Butler Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Hello Summer, Goodbye - Michael Coney Lord Byron's Novel - John Crowley Camp Concentration - Tho ...

Here is what has been nominated so far: The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks The Accord - Keith Brooke The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Hello Summer, Goodbye - Michael Coney Lord Byron's Novel - John Crowley Camp Concentration - Tho ...

... any so far, so these are all my suggestions: White queen by Gwyneth Jones Divine endurance also by Jones The parable of the sower by Octavia E. Butler The player of games by Iain M. Banks and Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch

... Smith 4. All Quiet on the Western Front—Erich Maria Remarque 5. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union—Michael Chabon 6. Parable of the Sower—Octavia Butler 7. Howl’s Moving Castle—Dianna Wynn Jones 8. Catch-22--Joseph Heller 9. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius—Dave Eg ...

... ll November Books * The White Lioness by Henning Mankell * Greek And Roman Ghost Stories by Lacy Collison-Morley * Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler * Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett * Sidetracked by Henning Mankell

9 Science Fiction Books 1.Brasyl - Ian McDonald 2.Moving Mars - Greg Bear 3.Parable Of The Sower - Octavia E. Butler 4.Patron Saint Of Plagues - Barth Anderson 5.Anathem - Neal Stephenson 6. 7. 8. 9.

I picked up a small mass market copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower today at a library sale. If anyone wants it, post here but then leave your address in a private message on my profile page. I thought I'd be able to find more but didn't!

... area) who rents in a gated community, I found it interesting. Gated communities show up also in Octavia Butler's dystopia Parable of the Sower. I'm not sure what I have to say about it at the moment. 3. Oryx. This time around I really questioned the purpose of Oryx in the book. She ...

Let's give this a shot, in no particular order: The Futurological Congress : Stanislaw Lem Ubik : Philip K Dick Parable of the Sower : Octavia E. Butler The Scar China Mieville The Iron Dragon's Daughter : Michael Swanwick The October Country : Ray Bradbury Deathbird Stories : ...

... Maker, Olaf Stapledon * Brave New World, Aldous Huxley * The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin * Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler * A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller Jr. * Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson * Dune, Frank Herbert * Hyperi ...

I don't know if anyone has mentioned Octavia Butler's Earthseed series as dystopian. I read Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents and really liked them. It's been a while since I've read them but they seem to be of the same genre as Children of Men.

... Fiction: Twenty Fifth annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois. For a novel I'll suggest for consideration Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.

... arguments for merit-based citizenship and corporal/capital punishment, and it scares me. Another two I keep rereading is Parable of the Sower/Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler. They're very good books, but they're horribly depressing to me, and make me angry at humanity. I always ...

... life after something happens in America in the 2030s. I don't really know what the 'something' is - this is the subject of Parable of the Sower, but I didn't realise there had been an earlier book! I really enjoy dystopian novel - I think it appeals to the pessimistic/conspiracy theorist ...

... saxon grammar, A greek grammar from 1884, The Men from PIG and ROBOT by Harry Harrison (it has special meaning for me), Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler and The Bridge of Lost Desire by Samuel Delany. I like having sunday morning markets around the corner.

Parable of the Sower by Octavie E. Butler. Again. It's a worrying book, but I can't get enough of it.

#238 sferrando, I'll recommend a SF book that not everybody would for a first time reader in the genre. The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. It's powerful and intense, not a cozy comfort read, but excellent. I've read it only once but it's one of those books that's stuck in my soul ...

I might be able to join you although I'm a bit overextended with theme reads and project work I have to do (not to mention some delicious-looking books which have arrived recently). I have determined to back off some of it in May so I can concentrate but one never knows. mark me down as a ...

... readers don't want to get hit over the head with all the SF standbys. Aliens, FTL, Wormholes and so on. So I'd go with; Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Brave New World by Aldous ...

Best fiction: (tie) Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler - amazing, engaging writing Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - this story is so sad, but it just sucks you in. Best Nonfiction: It's Not News, It's Fark: how mass media tries to pass crap off as news by Drew Curtis ...

... and non-cliched: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, followed by her Children of God. Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents (not 100% sure which of those goes first -- but it's a duology, not a never-ending series). Also kind of post-apocalyptic. ...

... but the whole idea of dominionism gives me the screaming heeby jeebies, for exactly that reason. It also makes me think of Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler. I rather hope it is the exagerration it seems. I don't want to see that in my lifetime (or after, ...

Lots of books vying for best this year. In the end I have to say... Parable of the Sower with honorable mentions to The Name of the Wind and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I don't know that I didn't like any books I read this year. I'm easily satisfied. *blushes at accidental ...

... casts. Another great dystopia would be Suzy McGee Charnas's Walk to the End of the World and Octavia Butler's dystopia Parable of the Sower is also excellent. Charnas's is blatantly feminist, published in the 70's (set post-apocalyptic earth). Butler's is set in the near future (near now!) ...

It's quite sad that I read Parable of the Sower recently, because there seem to be people out there actively trying to create the situation that is occurring in the book. I couldn't take the idea of destroying a public school system. How many people do you know who actually have the time, ...

Finished Parable of the Sower. Now I'm on to Parable of the Talents. I didn't know there was a new Uglies book. I'll have to hunt it up (I hope it's out here).

I've just started Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. I've read less than 30 pages and I'm already well hooked in. It's powerful and challenging stuff; I'm really looking forward to finding out where she's heading with it.

^ I love many of those you mention, especially 1984 and "On the Beach". Have you tried Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents? They're more along the lines of The Handmaid's Tale, in terms of being not as far off from our present-day as something like Br ...

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler seems not to have been mentioned yet.

>97, 103 others. I have loved Octavia Butler's works. You might also like her dystopia, Parable of the Sower and her most recent, and sadly her last novel, The Fledgling which is fascinating vampire tale . I'm not prone to reading vampire stories, but she uses this context to make us think ...

36. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin Very thought-provoking and interesting book. 37. Parable of the Sower by Ocatavia E. Butler Again with the thought-provoking dystopia. This one was much scarier than The Lathe of Heaven, with an easy-to-see future of hyper-inflat ...

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Plant This! by Ketzel Levine A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter

... Visitor and The Margarets by Tepper, I am reading The Lathe of Heaven by Le Guin, and I am planning on reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler next. The Visitor was a re-read, but all the rest are new. I've enjoyed them all so far.

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler The Futurological Cngress by Stanislaw Lem Feed by M.T. Anderson

... Tale by Margaret Atwood is definitely the fave but others lesser favorites are: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and I second Canticle for Leibowitz. The recent Th ...

... of Grace, Mary Doria Russell Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie *sip, sip. puts glass down* Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler The History of Love, Nicole Kraus Brick Lane, Monica Ali The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison Property, Valerie M ...

... if you prefer. That books is indescribable yet if anything, a tragedy. For fantasy...I think I'd either go with the Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler or Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana. Also--Viriconium by M. John Harrison and City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer.

... are often meant to be thought-provoking. Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale or Oryx and Crake, Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, and Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451. There are many thoughtful novels which focus a bit more specifically on various social issues. There ...

I've been neglecting my regular book reading to catch up on my comic reading, so I'm running a bit behind. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Audio book: Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon Voyager by Diana Gabaldon Graphic novel: Rogue: Going Rogue 32/100

... Moon which examines the idea of what it means to be normal. It sold both in genre and out. I would also recommend Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (dystopian future), Player of Games by Ian M. Banks (political intrigue in highly advanced societies), Salt by Adam Roberts (contr ...

... "Jusqu'au coeur du soleil" "Sundiver" de David BRIN "The Silicon Man" de Charles PLATT "La parabole du semeur" "Parable of the Sower" de Octavia E. BUTLER "Neuromancien" "Neuromancer" de William GIBSON "Legion of the Damned" de William C. DIETZ "Marionnettes humaines" ...

I read the Parable books (Parable of the Talents and Parable of the Sower) by Octavia Butler earlier this year and really enjoyed them, in that creepy, gut-wrenching sort of way that made me want to pack an emergency pack and plan in-case-of-economic-breakdown escape routes. There's quite a ...

... erson Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Specials by Scott Westerfeld That should keep me busy for a while.