There is an old parable about a young sailor who is left alone at sea because his ship suddenly sinks and his crew dies. He constructs a makeshift raft and follows the stars for navigation. But when a ...

Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower was published 30 years ago, in 1993. This Afrofuturistic book about a dystopian America set in our time now seems positively prophetic — and a new ...