🔵 FS
There are earlier instances of fiction with thrutopian tones. Sekhar points to a1993 sci-fi classic — Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. It’s set in a climate change-afflicted California of 2024 where water and food are scarce and expensive commodities. A few walled communities attempt to keep order and family life alive, but beyond their walls a lawless and violent survival state is emerging. The story follows a young woman trying to forge a middle path between the limitations of the old way of life and the growing chaos of the outside world.
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