Wow, was this good! I picked it up because I was struggling with a sermon on the parable that gives the book its name, but even if I didn’t end up taking much from the book for my sermon, it really made an impression.

It’s evocative, and it does an amazing job of describing a hopeful apocalypse. I can see how other media I like—Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway or the indie TTRPG Why We Fight—owe something to this book.

I’ll be thinking about this for a long time!

• Octavia Butler
• Lynne Thigpen
• Walkaway
• Cory Doctorow
• Why We Fight
• sermons
• TTRPGs
• Parable of the Sower