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Reddit mentions of Kindred
Sentiment score: 4
Reddit mentions: 7
We found 7 Reddit mentions of Kindred. Here are the top ones.
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Specs:
| Color | Multicolor |
| Height | 7.92 Inches |
| Length | 5.35 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | February 2004 |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Width | 0.86 Inches |
[Kindred] (https://www.amazon.com/Kindred-Octavia-Butler/dp/0807083690), by Octavia Butler. It's actually the first science fiction novel written by a black woman, but when I read it for the first time I don't know that I would have classified it as science fiction. Anyway, incredible book, very exciting and the premise is unique. I highly recommend it.
I also loved and still do love Matilda by Roald Dahl. Ender's Game is also very high on my list.
If we're talking really quick reads, like for a flight or beach day, I absolutely love Mary Higgins Clark. It's not great literature or anything, but they're good mysteries.
It's one of the few Butler's I haven't read yet, but the plot sounds like Kindred.
Kindred, by Octavia Butler.
Hands-down one of my favorite books. It's about a modern black woman in the 70s, married to an older white man, who time travels back to the pre-Civil War era South to protect her ancestors who were slaves. I've read it several times. It's an excellent book.
This month I read the Valerian The Empire of a Thousand Planets book that has a movie coming out. The copy I got smells weird. Pretty standard for a European comic from that time period. I'm always amused by how comics describe decadence :-)
I am also in the middle of Kindred, by Octavia Butler. Very good, highly recommended. In having trouble putting it down to go to sleep at night.
This year I want to read a bunch of stuff by minority authors. Oh, and some non fiction.
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler.
Some 80's cyberpunk-ish stuff. This is far from the best SF I've read, but it's obscure. Stuff I liked when I was a teenager-twentyager.
The Glass Hammer by K.W. Jeter. An odd, cyberpunk thing that I liked when I came out in 1985. Now out of print. I'm having it scanned and will post when it's ready.
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger. (and sequels) Great adventure in an Islamic environment.
The Man Who Never Missed (and sequels) by Steve Perry.
The Skyway Series by John DeChancie. (Starrigger, Red Limit Freeway, Paradox Alley) Silly, adolescent adventure, driving across space and time.
Kindred by Octavia Butler. Actually, EVERYTHING by Octavia Butler is great.
Artificial Things, by Karen Joy Fowler. Short stories.
Blue Champagne by John Valey. Short stories.
It's on Amazon
Kindred https://www.amazon.com/dp/0807083690/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_4s13xbH68DTMS