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Octavia butler kindred series5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() (Butler described it as a “grim fantasy.”) Developed by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the series, relocated from 1976 to the present day - 2016 is the pre-pandemic named year - adopts Butler’s main mechanism and her main characters and incidents, with some alterations. Published in 1979 and set by turns in the bicentennial year and the early to mid-1800s, the novel is not science fiction per se although it involves time travel, it is inexplicable in any but metaphysical terms. ![]() ![]() The first of these to appear is “Kindred,” whose eight-episode first season premieres in its entirety Tuesday on Hulu. ![]() Her 1993 novel “ Parable of the Sower” jumped onto the New York Times bestseller list in 2020, and in the Hollywood spirit of “Get me one of those,” several of her works have been optioned for development. As one of the first Black women to write science fiction, Butler has been celebrated and studied for a long time, but she has lately come into wider view. Sixteen years after her premature death, Octavia Butler is having a moment. ![]()
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