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Kindred (1979) is a novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler that incorporates time travel and is modeled on slave narratives.Widely popular, it has frequently been chosen as a text by community-wide reading programs and book organizations, and for high school and college courses.
"The Book of Martha" is a story about trying to create a perfect world. God gives a woman named Martha the task of helping humans become less destructive. Although afraid of making mistakes and resentful of God for the way he had designed the world, Martha eventually starts to create ways that she can help humanity.
For the first time since it was published in 1979, Octavia E. Butler's acclaimed sci-fi novel, Kindred, has been adapted for TV. More specifically, the novel is the source material for an eight ...
In Michael Ondaatje's novel, Anil's Ghost, the book is discussed as being placed with other novels in the doctors' common room of a Sri Lankan hospital, but remaining unread. In Günter Grass's first novel The Tin Drum, Elective Affinities is one of the two books which the central character Oskar uses for guidance, along with a book on Rasputin.
Octavia Butler's time travel novel is massaged into a TV series. 'Kindred's' transfer to TV keeps the novel's plot intact, but loses its spirit Skip to main content
Lilith's Brood is a collection of three works by Octavia E. Butler.The three volumes of this science fiction series (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago) were previously collected in the now out-of-print omnibus edition Xenogenesis.
Parable of the Sower is a 1993 speculative fiction novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler. It is set in a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and social inequality. [1] The novel follows Lauren Olamina, a young woman who can feel the pain of others and becomes displaced from her home.
Of Human Bondage is a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham.The novel is generally agreed to be Maugham's masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although he stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography; though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention."