The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler,” author Susanna Miller shares Butler’s quiet yet radical story, revealing how the ...

In the 1979 novel "Kindred," author Octavia Butler sent her main character – a Black woman – back to the antebellum south of the 1800s. Dana lands amongst her ancestors, who were owned as slaves.

“If a ‘Kindred’ movie is ever made, I wouldn’t be involved,” Octavia Butler wrote in a letter in 2000. “It won’t be my movie, and I suspect it won’t look much like my book.” ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Actress Mallori Johnson said she always was keenly aware of the gravity anchoring her TV adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's 1979 novel Kindred, which follows Dana, a ...

The TV series “Kindred,” which premiered on Dec. 13th of last year, was created by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and aimed to modernize Butler's novel.

Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel “Kindred” has been adapted into an FX series. It’s about a young Black woman named Dana who lives in Los Angeles in the present but is hurtled back to Antebellum-era ...

That transformational process, along with the growing pains, joys and shock that go along with it, really grabs people," said Jamieson, founder of the Octavia Butler E. Legacy Network.

But FX’s “ Kindred,” based on the 1979 Octavia Butler novel, owes its identity as much to the problems and possibilities of TV in the 21st century as it does to one of the landmark ...

Octavia E. Butler ‘s Kindred is officially coming to FX. An adaptation of the acclaimed American author’s 1979 science fiction novel has gotten a series order.

That transformational process, along with the growing pains, joys and shock that go along with it, really grabs people,” said Jamieson, founder of the Octavia Butler E. Legacy Network.