[spoiler]What do you do when, in order to exist, you have to allow the rape of another character, a woman just like you? Yeah. That's just ONE of the big questions being asked in this novel.[/spoiler]I'm sorry to say that it's taken me this long to get around to Octavia Butler's books, if the others...
Writing about literature shouldn't make intangible feelings obvious ones. It shouldn't pantomime nuance, or float those subtleties an author steeped into the novel’s tone. This is how it is to write about Kindred, a story rife (for any time) with aching parallels, and built on that bonework of slave...
Octavia Butler amazes me. She writes science fiction that is full of complicated ideas about race and sexuality that are completely readable. I’ll innocently start reading, thinking only to get a solid start on the book, and suddenly discover I’m halfway through the story. That isn’t to imply she’s ...
The story involves a staple of science fiction--time travel--and Octavia Butler is famous as a science fiction writer--considered by many one of the greats alongside writers such as Ursula LeGuin, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. This particular novel isn't science fiction though, and you may be di...
This books was great! It follows a black woman in the 1970s who goes back in time to when slavery was accepted, to save a white child who turns out to be her ancestor. As the boy grows up, she continues to travel back and save him every time his life is in danger, and stays for longer and longer per...
I give this a 4.5This was a unique kind of story. I liked it. I wish she had explained why Dana was pulled by Rufus in the first place. I also would like a follow up to the five years lost by this white man from the 20th century placed in such a setting. But over all I was transported into history t...
Okay, three stars because the premise is terrific: A modern black lady gets time traveled back into slavery times. So yeah, Louis CK basically said the same thing but funnier, but Octavia Butler said it first!But only three stars because urgh, I am not into this writing. Graceless and expository. It...
Great science fiction does more than just entertain. Sometimes, it's used to explore difficult material and ideas about society, past experiences, as well as speculate on where we are headed in the future. Octavia Butler was one of the queens of sci-fi and Kindred is considered by many to be her mas...
This books was great! It follows a black woman in the 1970s who goes back in time to when slavery was accepted, to save a white child who turns out to be her ancestor. As the boy grows up, she continues to travel back and save him every time his life is in danger, and stays for longer and longer per...
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