Butler is a multiple-recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards and one of the best-known female writers in the field. Co-written by two beloved sci-fi authors, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story that spans time and space. 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. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him.
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. A similar premise to John Birminghams Axis of Time series. This is one I read at least 30 years ago.It was a UK paperback. 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. Lafferty Story about ship going back in time (1 answer) Closed 5 years ago.
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