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I haven't read Parable of the Sower, but looked it up when I saw it pop-up on The OA (which I've finally gotten around to watching). Written in 1993, it sounds like Octavia Butler had 2024 about right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Sower_%28novel%29?wprov=sfla1
ConsumerOfStories
Ah c'mon, in the book people are also trying to get to Mars and populist candidates are on the rise. It's not THAT similar to our situation...
bakamono
Populist candidates on the rise? Guess we are lucky that hasn't come to be. /s
QuestionablyMoist
I read it a couple years ago, it was eerily prescient. We aren’t there…yet