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Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
I stayed up way too late last night finishing this. More to come; this one needs to percolate for a minute.
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I don't really want to dive back into the world of this book, but sooner or later I want to reread it in order to look more closely at how she did it. Butler pulled me in almost immediately and didn't let me go until well after the last page. Alongside her protagonist, you become deeply enmeshed in the lives of people on this plantation and the horrors that those with more power enact on those with less.
I think it's fair to say this is not a science fiction story because at no point is Butler interested in explaining the mechanics of how the time travel is happening. The whatever-it-is that ensnares Dana is effectively magic; what Butler wants to explore is all social and psychological. No matter the scenario, she tells us, people can are malleable, shaped by their environment and the pressures on them.
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I don't really want to dive back into the world of this book, but sooner or later I want to reread it in order to look more closely at how she did it. Butler pulled me in almost immediately and didn't let me go until well after the last page. Alongside her protagonist, you become deeply enmeshed in the lives of people on this plantation and the horrors that those with more power enact on those with less.
I think it's fair to say this is not a science fiction story because at no point is Butler interested in explaining the mechanics of how the time travel is happening. The whatever-it-is that ensnares Dana is effectively magic; what Butler wants to explore is all social and psychological. No matter the scenario, she tells us, people can are malleable, shaped by their environment and the pressures on them.