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It Could Happen Here

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Octavia Butler's Parable of the Seer

This episode is abought octavia butler. Born in 19 forty seven and growing up in segregation er america, she became an award winning syphi water writer. She was somewhat after a futurist, but she was also very much a ole of her stories really blended. In the first book, clober, climate change and economic crisis has led to a whole set of social crisis and chaos. And masses of poor people will do basically anything to live to see another day. So basically to day in this setting, 15 year old laren olemina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father,. family and neighbors - sheltered somewhat from the surrounding khios.

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