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PLEASE for the love of the universe read anti-colonial science fiction and fantasy written from marginalized perspectives. Y’all (you know who you are) are killing me. To see people praise books about empire written exclusively by white women and then turn around and say you don’t know who Octavia Butler is or that you haven’t read any NK Jemisin just kills me! I’m not saying you HAVE to enjoy specific books but there is such an obvious pattern here

Some of y’all love marginalized stories but you don’t give a fuck about marginalized creators and characters, and it shows. Like damn

#science fiction #fantasy #xenogenesis #earthseed #the broken earth #frankly I think many of the critiques of my own work are valid #but when I see the same criticisms applied to authors who fundamentally changed the genre #I’m like #hold up

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Earthseed

by Octavia Butler

Here we are — Energy, Mass, Life, Shaping life, Mind, Shaping Mind God, Shaping God. Consider — We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.

All that you touch You Change.

All that you Change Changes you.

The only lasting truth Is Change.

God Is Change.

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Books Shania Read In 2026 – Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

"That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times."

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Last q&a there was a question about what recent interests had been artistically inspiring all of you. I'd like to continue that trend. What are some things that are currently creatively and artistically inspiring you? Or other current interests?

📜: I love this question, and I feel like the answer is ever-changing! I've recently been playing through Cyberpunk 2077 (and Phantom Liberty) and having a BLAST - the incalculable variations and twists to almost every single gig are mind-meltingly cool, and well wrought. I'm sure I could vamp at length about every little thing that blows my mind, but I'll be concise here and say: IT IS SO GOOD and PLAY IT. More than once, if you're able. I've been reading a lot of Octavia Butler recently, and though the Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents are eerily grim in their depictions of 2026 and beyond, I am just in awe of her wordsmithing, and concise prescience. I also just re-read Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth (a childhood favorite), and can NEVER recommend that book highly enough. It is beautiful and brilliant and bananas in so many ways that just keep giving, and the original illustrations by Jules Feiffer are worth getting your hands on a physical copy. In fact, I might go read some more now. This is going to be my last question of the day, and I thank everyone for the fabulous questions that have come through! This has been Matt, signing off. ~📜

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It's so strange to me how many of the key techno-fascist figures are purportedly sci-fi fans. People like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk want to colonize the stars ... but they want to do it with reactionary right-wing beliefs?

Like they really think there are going to be christian marriages on our generation ships? Our space stations will have gender segregation? People will mod every part of their body but then base their gender on their at-birth genitals?

Technological progress without social progress just seems so silly to me. Progressive societies in sci-fi just feel much more believable. Of course James Holden from The Expanse has an 8-person polycule for his parents and they all gave DNA to sire him. Of course gender and sex are completely malleable in Seek and heteronormativity is something for fringe subcultures. The societies in these books are by no means utopian but their progressiveness in gender and sexuality just feel natural in these settings.

I think Octavia Butler had a point when in her Parable duology she came up with Earthseed as a religion that could be a societal blueprint for a spacefaring humanity. The core tenet of Earthseed is that 'God is Change' and it's all about accepting the reality of change while recognizing your own agency in it. Not that we necessarily need a religion like that but I do think that nobody who fears change will make it to the stars.

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"Create no images of God. Accept the images that God has provided. They are everywhere, in everything. God is Change— Seed to tree, tree to forest; Rain to river, river to sea; Grubs to bees, bees to swarm. From one, many; from many, one; Forever uniting, growing, dissolving— forever Changing. The universe is Godʼs self-portrait."

Earthseed: The Books of the Living, Octavia E. Butler

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Endless List of Books: Parable of The Talents by Octavia E. Butler (1998)

We go on having stupid wars that we justify and get passionate about, but in the end, all they do is kill huge numbers of people, maim others, impoverish still more, spread disease and hunger, and set the stage for the next war. And when we look at all of that in history, we just shrug our shoulders and say, well, that’s the way things are. That’s the way things always have been.

June 15, 2026

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books i read in 2026:

"parable of the sower"

octavia e. butler

"they were slow changes compared to anything that might happen here, but it took a plague to make some of the people realize that things could change. so? things are changing now, too. our adults haven’t been wiped out by a plague so they’re still anchored in the past, waiting for the good old days to come back. but things have changed a lot, and they’ll change more."

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