Parable of the Songwriter: Toshi Reagon Explains Why an Octavia Butler-Inspired Opera Is More Relevant Than Ever
When Octavia Butler published Parable of Sower in 1993, she fictionally forecasted the year 2024 as a dystopia under immoral and ignorant leadership; wracked by climate change and corporate and political avarice. In Butler's vision of America, our so-called civilized society buckles under unbearable wealth inequality,"