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From the celebrated author, the thrilling sequel to Parable of the Sower – an extraordinary novel ahead of its time.

‘In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time… for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler’s novel may be unmatched’ NEW YORKER

‘Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same’ GLORIA STEINEM

In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.

Asha was born into a broken world. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering – and the truth about her mother.

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