Practitioners of a religion in a novel by this author believe that humanity is destined to colonize other planets. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of The Parable of the Sower, the first novel in an unfinished trilogy by this author. Dana travels back in time to a Maryland plantation in this author’s novel Kindred.
ANSWER: Octavia Butler [or Octavia Estelle Butler]
[10h] The idea that “God is Change” is the central tenet of this religion in The Parable of the Sower, whose text, The Books of the Living, was written by its founder and protagonist of the novel Lauren Olamina.
ANSWER: Earthseed
[10e] Butler’s novel Kindred incorporates science fiction ideas as well as elements from this other genre of African-American literature. Frederick Douglass recounted a fight with Edward Covey in a work in this genre.
ANSWER: slave narrative [accept answers indicating an autobiography or memoir of enslaved people; prompt on autobiography or memoir with “of what people?”]
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