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Octavia Butler — Kindred

1979 time-travel novel that drops a modern Black woman into a Maryland plantation in 1815.

Considered the first science fiction novel by a Black woman to gain wide critical acclaim. Adapted into a 2022 FX/Hulu series. Butler's papers reside at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA.

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