In this post-apocalyptic novel, there is not single earth shattering apocalyptic event. Instead, there is just a gradual breakdown of society brought about by climate change, corporate greed and social inequality (all interrelated anyway). Lauren Olamina is a relatively privileged teenager living in a small walled enclave. She’s privileged in that she has a home, her father still has a job with a salary, and she knows how to read and write. This is not much, but compared to the thousands, or maybe millions […]
A believable and scary post apocalyptic future
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
