Not surprisingly, a slew of Butler adaptations are in the works, including ones by Issa Rae, JJ Abrams and Ava DuVernay. Parable of the Sower, her 1993 novel about a dystopian future marked by catastrophic droughts and class wars, didn’t light up the bestseller list until the pandemic, when it was belatedly all the rage. A leader of the Afrofuturism movement, which fused science fiction and racial justice, she turned out books that would gain in relevance and renown in the decades that followed her death from a stroke at age 58 in 2006. Presenting themselves as travelers, with Dana the property of Kevin, the duo spends time in their new realm witnessing the horrors of slavery and helping the residents of the plantation – enslaved and slaveholders alike.īutler was a time traveler in her own way, a MacArthur “genius” whose work presaged the climate crisis and the racial reckoning of recent years. He’s a musician, and a reliable and caring escort to Dana’s subsequent travels to the antebellum south in Kindred, the new FX on Hulu series based on Octavia E Butler’s 1979 classic that married science fiction and contemporary romance, and interrogated the legacy of slavery, and interracial relationships. Kevin turns out to be a keeper, more romantic than his initial correspondence would suggest.
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