Parable of the Sower

I didn't like this. I thought it was well written, the characters were clearly delineated, the locations were all clear and distinct.
But it was very depressing and I don't see the SF&F elements to this.
As near as I could tell, the cause of the economic collapse is not the result of any traditional SF reasons.
All the jobs weren't replaced by robots or AI, nobody developed replicators, nobody discovered magic.
I'm guessing it was because of corporate greed and political support of that greed.
The new religion is only marginally different than existing ones and its followers didn't acquire any new abilities, so it is just as effective as all other religions.

I wanted to read something by Ms. Butler because I often heard she was a good writer.
I would agree that she is, but I didn't find the book very interesting.