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Fiction, Twenty-first century, African Americans, Science fiction
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.
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Overwhelming, bleak, epic and grave.
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On Open Library, 104 have read it and 816 want to.
“I had my recurring dream last night.”
An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. [Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]: Octavia E Butler (1947–2006) > I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler's Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I'd never heard of her – nor have a great many other readers, I suspect. For many years, Butler was the sole African-American woman novelist in science fiction. Kindred tells the wrenching and unforgettable story of a young black
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