“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is Change.”

— Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (1993), Earthseed verses

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About Octavia E. Butler

1947 – 2006

American science fiction author known for 'Parable of the Sower' and 'Kindred', and the Earthseed philosophy at the centre of her novels.

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