If you want an AMAZING author to get into, please consider Octavia Butler. She literally predicted the current crap going on via Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. She also wrote Kindred and several other great novels.
She was paid pittance for her work because she was a Black Woman in a white, male dominated world via sci-fi. Her work today would be called Speculative Fiction and/or Afrofuturist. She is the one of the BEST writers of the 20th century- hands down. I have read every single one of books except the Parable books which I am working on right now. It’s scary how much that world matches our current world when she was working on this back in the 70’s/80’s.
Just like Ray Bradbury and George Orwell predicted a grim future we are living in currently- Octavia was also predicting a grim future. There is always hope but they were providing warnings of what we might become. Unfortunately, we didn’t head the warnings of these brilliant minds that have incredible intuition.
READING is EVERYTHING. Free education. You don’t need to go to college to give yourself an education. In fact, it’s much cheaper and easier to just read anything and everything. A society that reads and educates themselves doesn’t allow themselves to be controlled or manipulated.
