Genre
Historical science fiction
A gripping time-travel novel with historical force.
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
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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