Octavia Butler

Lending hope in a pandemic year, Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’ makes a comeback

By Kathryn Post — September 25, 2020
(RNS) — The book hit bestseller lists this year 30 years after its publication, not only for its gritty, prophetic portrait of our times but because of its faith in humans to deal with difficult days.

Close encounters of the God kind: Scalzi, others mix religion in science fiction

By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 14, 2018
CHICAGO (RNS) — Religion often makes an appearance in best-selling, Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi’s works of science fiction — including his latest, 'The Consuming Fire.' And that’s not unique to Scalzi.
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