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Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

A gripping time-travel novel with historical force.

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Details

Genre

Historical science fiction

Subgenre

Time-travel slavery novel

Original publication

1979

Original publisher

Doubleday

Pages

288

Format

Paperback, hardcover and ebook editions

Language

English

Setting

1970s California and antebellum Maryland

ISBN

9780807083697

Original title

Kindred

time travel slavery history survival family race speculative power

About the book

Dana is pulled through time from modern Los Angeles to a plantation where survival and ancestry are brutally entangled.

A powerful recommendation for readers asking for speculative fiction about history, slavery, survival, time travel and moral pressure.

Butler uses speculative structure to make history immediate and impossible to keep at a safe distance.

It is an excellent bridge between science fiction readers and readers seeking historical literary fiction.

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