Douglas Texter discusses the critical dystopia in relation to Fizzy Allbright in Paul Theroux's O-Zone (1986) and Lauren Olamina in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower (1993). He describes how The Parable of the Sower demonstrates for readers the jeopardy of being gifted and how to use the gift to ultimately serve humanity. He believes Lauren's Earthseed is paradoxical. He argues that even though the Earthseed belief system unifies people for a common purpose in incredible circumstances; it’s still deeply individualistic, at least at the beginning. Lauren responds to a call from the infinite, which is based on her self-reflection and her own observation of the near future. Therefore, Butler criticizes the individualism based on the false
