Octavia Butler · 1993 · survival
Octavia Butler's prophetic 1993 novel, set in a near-future California collapsing under climate change, inequality, and violence. When her walled neighborhood near Los Angeles is destroyed, the teenage Lauren Olamina, who feels others' pain as her own, sets out north on foot through a lawless landscape, gathering a band of refugees and the beginnings of a new faith, Earthseed, as she searches for a place to start again.
- 1Robledo
Lauren Olamina grows up behind the walls of a fragile neighborhood near Los Angeles, in a California falling apart.
- 2The Highway
When her community is destroyed, she sets out north on foot up the highway with two survivors.
- 3The Salinas Valley
North through a lawless land, her band of refugees growing, the seeds of Earthseed taking root.
- 4The North Coast
To the forested hills of far northern California, to plant the first Earthseed community.