Sublime

“Are we agreed?” Le Bois asks. “Survival, then more discussion?” “Survival first. No more arguing,” Boreas declares.

Life is a battle between the Maker and His creation.

cells was viewed as a baby in America.

One of Butler’s novels, The Parable of the Sower, hit the New York Times bestseller list for the first time in 2020,3 fulfilling one of Butler’s life goals fourteen years after her death. The book portrays a post-apocalyptic future in the aftermath of runaway climate disasters, in which small communities must band together in order to survive.

One of the essential functions of science fiction, I think, is precisely this kind of question-asking: reversals of a habitual way of thinking, metaphors for what our language has no words for as yet, experiments in imagination.

Short-lived people, people who could die, did not know what enemies loneliness and boredom could be.