Utopia
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This novel sets priorities! If there’s one thing that makes feminist science fiction more interesting than the male-dominated rest, it’s not female protagonists or the depiction of patriarchal violence – a deeper feminist critique starts with the basic structures of the narration, the narratives, and overrides them if necessary (see my review of Joanna Russ).
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→ to part 1 Is religion the root of all evil or the seed of a humanity that is growing beyond itself? In the sequel to The Parable of the Sower, Octavia Estelle Butler takes the time to realise what previously existed only in the thoughts of protagonist Lauren Olamina: Earthseed. The first volume was
Dennis Biba 