Parable of the Sower
The novel that made Butler a prophet: a New York Times bestseller decades after publication, source of an opera and a graphic novel, and the founding text of modern climate dystopia.
Series Guide
Earthseed
The Parable duology: a teenage prophet builds a new faith for a collapsing America, on the principle that God is Change. Unfinished at Butler's death, and more quoted every year.