Parable of the Sower (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Butler, Octavia, and Stephen W. Potts, "'We Keep Playing the Same Record': A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler," in Science-Fiction Studies, Vol. 23, No. 70, November 1996, pp. 331 – 38.

  Butler discusses the science-fiction genre, responses to her work, and themes her work addresses.

• Fry, Joan, "An Interview with Octavia Butler," in Poets & Writers Magazine, Vol. 25, March/April 1997, pp. 58 – 69.

  Butler discusses a range of topics, including her favorite writers and where the philosophical ideas in Parable of the Sower come from.

• Wiloch, Thomas, Review of Parable of the Sower, in Bloomsbury Review, May/June 1994, p. 24.

  Wiloch applauds Butler for not following the pattern of most science fiction. She is not content to tell a standard adventure story but instead turns it into a character study of a young woman.