Los Angeles Times

Could Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Talents’ draw a new audience as a graphic novel?

Influential writer Octavia Butler’s literary legend may spread to a new type of fanbase with the introduction of a graphic novel adaptation of “Parable of the Talents,” originally published as a novel ...
Fast Company

To Catch a Wild Pig – A Parable About Society That Offers Valuable Lessons for Leaders

A friend of mine sent me a wonderful piece called “Catching the Wild Pig”. For those of you who have never heard this parable (and I hadn’t until now), here it is: A chemistry professor at a large ...
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Octavia E Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’ is set to become a feature film, with Melina Matsoukas directing

The 1993 novel is hailed as one of the best science fiction books of all time, along with George Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’ One of the most lauded science fiction ...
NPR

Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — now it's also an opera

Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower was published 30 years ago, in 1993. This Afrofuturistic book about a dystopian America set in our time now seems positively prophetic — and a new ...
IGN

Parable of the Talents: The Sci-Fi Classic Gets a Graphic Novel Adaptation

Octavia Butler is undoubtedly one of the greatest science fiction authors of all time, and it should come as no surprise that her work continues to be adapted in other media. Abrams ComicArts is ...