One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had
Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision (
Guardian)
A dark, compelling and still horribly resonant time travel story (
Independent)
[Her] evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human (
New York Times)
No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential... If you've ever tweeted "All Lives Matter", someone needs to shove
Kindred into your hand, and quickly (
The Pool)
Kindred is that rare magical artifact . . . the novel one returns to, again and again (
Harlan Ellison)
One cannot finish
Kindred without feeling changed. It is a shattering work of art (
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner)
[A] must-read novel (
BBC)
Everyone should read at least one novel by the grand dame of science fiction, and
Kindred is a perfect (and harrowing and disturbing and brilliant) place to start (
Refinery 29)
The immediate effect of reading Octavia Butler's
Kindred is to make every other time travel book in the world look as if it's wimping out... This is a brilliant book, utterly absorbing, very well written, and deeply distressing. It's very hard to read, not because it's not good but because it's so good (
Tor) --This text refers to an alternate
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About the Author
Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was the author of numerous ground-breaking novels, including
Kindred,
Wild Seed, and
Parable of the Sower. Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship 'Genius Grant'. --This text refers to an alternate
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