Dana, who’s Black, is immediately thrust into a fight for survival-until she suddenly is transported back to her own time period. When she regains consciousness, she finds herself in a completely different place and time: a Maryland plantation in 1815. In 1976, Dana and her husband Kevin are unpacking their new home in Los Angeles, when Dana blacks out and falls to the floor. Kindred is one of the most highly regarded and widely read books in Butler’s oeuvre, in part because of its provocative premise. Which is why it’s a bit surprising that it’s taken this long for one of her classic books to be adapted-and extra disappointing that it’s such a misfire. Still, after her untimely death in 2006, at age 58, her legacy has only grown in influence and import her Afro-futuristic touches and subversions of the classically white male sci-fi canon continue to be themselves canonized. Butler didn’t live to see any of her seminal science fiction works transition from page to screen.
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