Octavia E. Butler - "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents"

Amazing story about post apocalyptic America. People being addicted to "pyromania", or "ro", and wanting to burn everything. Neighbourhoods with large walls around them. Main character has to flee when her neighbourhood gets raised. She is writing "Earthseed", basically a new religion, about God being Change, to make mankind reach the stars. Enjoyed the second book as well, although the pace of the first half of the first book is nowhere to be found. "It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their faear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach themm, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching." All successful life is Adaptable, Opportunistic, Tenacious, Interconnected, and Fecund, Understand this. Use it. Shape God. Pray, But beware, Your desires, Whether or not you achieve them Will determine who you become