![]() ![]() In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship, nicknamed the Genius Grant. Butler is a multiple-recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards and one of the best-known female writers in the field. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.Īuthor Octavia E. The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958) a Czechoslovak adventure film. ![]() Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Wells The Anubis Gates (1983) by Tim Pow. ![]() Butler herself called it ”a kind of grim fantasy.”ĭana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. ![]() Kindred involves time travel, so while being technically science fiction, it’s often shelved under “literature” or “African-American literature,” due to the protagonist shuttling back into a pre-Civil War Maryland plantation. The Boat of Millions of Years, he thought the boat of the dying sungod Ra, tacking down the western sky to the source of the dark river that runs through the underworld from west to east, through the twelve hours of the night, at the far eastern end of which the boat will tomorrow reappear, bearing a once again youthful, newly reignited sun. ![]()
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