“People here in the neighborhood are saying she had no business going to Mars, anyway. All that money wasted on another crazy space trip when so many people here on earth can’t afford water, food, or shelter”

— Octavia E. Butler, book Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 17

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American science fiction writer 1947–2006

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