January 2012
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Read: Kindred by Octavia Butler
I usually think of science fiction as involving aliens — usually of the slimy, outer space variety. In Kindred the aliens are our ancestors, who owned and trafficked in slaves. The science fiction part derives from the fact that the book’s protagonist, Dana, is a black woman from Los Angeles in 1976 who finds herself mysteriously transported across time and space to early 19th century...
