Octavia E. Butler Press Reviews
One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had -- Junot Diaz Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision - Guardian
A dark, compelling and still horribly resonant time travel story - Independent
[Her] evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human - New York Times
No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential... If you've ever tweeted All Lives Matter , someone needs to shove Kindred into your hand, and quickly - The Pool
Kindred is that rare magical artifact . . . the novel one returns to, again and again - Harlan Ellison
One cannot finish Kindred without feeling changed. It is a shattering work of art - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
[A] must-read novel - BBC
Everyone should read at least one novel by the grand dame of science fiction, and Kindred is a perfect (and harrowing and disturbing and brilliant) place to start - Refinery 29
The immediate effect of reading Octavia Butler's Kindred is to make every other time travel book in the world look as if it's wimping out... This is a brilliant book, utterly absorbing, very well written, and deeply distressing. It's very hard to read, not because it's not good but because it's so good - Tor
A searing, caustic examination of bizarre and alien practices on the third planet from the sun - Kirkus
One of the most original, thought-provoking works examining race and identity - Los Angeles Times
Impossible to turn away from once you've devoured the first few pages - Starburst
If you haven't read Butler, you don't yet understand how rich the possibilities of science fiction can be - Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Butler's books are exceptional - Village Voice
Few writers in our field are so good at blending page-turners with philosophical questions so seamlessly -- Cory Doctorow -
