{"id":716,"date":"2011-03-02T10:23:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T10:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2011\/03\/what-can-you-teach-me-about-octavia-butler.html"},"modified":"2011-03-02T10:23:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T10:23:48","slug":"what-can-you-teach-me-about-octavia-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2011\/03\/what-can-you-teach-me-about-octavia-butler.html","title":{"rendered":"What can you teach me about Octavia Butler?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/butler2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"butler2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/109\/import\/assets_c\/2011\/03\/butler2-thumb-200x298-21566.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"298\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span>I&#8217;m not much of a science fiction reader. &nbsp;Recently, though, I saw an interview with Octavia Butler. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve perused her books with titles such as, &#8220;Kindred,&#8221; &#8220;Parable of the Sower,&#8221; Parable of the Talents,&#8221; and &#8220;Wild Seed.&#8221; &nbsp;Obviously, the Biblical allusions catch my eye as well as the some of story lines but I don&#8217;t know where to start.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><i>Are you an Octavia Butler fan? &nbsp;I&#8217;d love to be educated on her work: &nbsp;What do you think is her best novel? &nbsp;Why do you read her books?<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not much of a science fiction reader. &nbsp;Recently, though, I saw an interview with Octavia Butler. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve perused her books with titles such as, &#8220;Kindred,&#8221; &#8220;Parable of the Sower,&#8221; Parable of the Talents,&#8221; and &#8220;Wild Seed.&#8221; &nbsp;Obviously, the Biblical allusions catch my eye as well as the some of story lines but I don&#8217;t&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-music-movies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What can you teach me about Octavia Butler? 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