Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time — Parable of the Sower - A very real dystopia that helped launch Afrofuturism!

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Parable of the Sower - A very real dystopia that helped launch Afrofuturism!

Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time · 29

It’s the year 2025, and society is descending into anarchy in the face of climate change and other disasters. We see the world through the diary entries of Lauren Olamina, a teenager living in a walled-in neighborhood in the exurbs of Los Angeles. Jobs are scarce, food and water are increasingly expensive, and armed…

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