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Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler gives us yet another title to rave about with Parable of the Talents, the last in a series of futuristic communities inevitable of what ours may someday become. Octavia Butler finishes the epic with a tale of the survival, destruction, and rebirth of a community called Acorn with the religion of Earthseed as its foundation. Lauren Olamina's love is divided among her young daughter, her community, and the revelation that led Lauren to found a new faith that teaches "God Is Change." However, in the wake of environmental and economic chaos, the U.S. government turns a blind eye to violent bigots who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat. Soon Lauren must either sacrifice her child and her followers--or forsake the religion that can transform human destiny. The main character, an African-American woman named Lauren Oya Olamina, introduced first in the Parable of the Sower, is the founder, leader, and creator of this safe haven that found it could not shy away from the chaos of the outside world. Beginning in the not so distant future year of 2032, Olamina and her followers found them in the progressing, successful, profiting shelter of Acorn surrounded by people they