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    Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower

    Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower

    In the opening to Octavia E. Butler's prescient science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to Lauren Olamina and start to learn about the dystopian future her story takes place in