Actress Mallori Johnson first encountered the work of writer Octavia Butler when she read “Fledgling,” a novel about a young Black vampire. It was the summer before she left home for the Julliard ...

Octavia E. Butler: The visionary force behind 'Kindred' Before dystopian fiction like "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent" reflected an increasingly diverse society, there was Octavia E. Butler, one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pilot, directed by Janicza Bravo, has led to an eight-episode series order Octavia E. Butler‘s Kindred is officially coming to ...

Back in 2001, I was an aspiring writer attending the Clarion West Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop in Seattle. Butler had attended a Clarion workshop 30 years prior as a student, but now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2016, Dana James (Mallori Johnson) sells her late mother's brownstone in Brooklyn and moves to Los Angeles with a vague plan to ...

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. The ...

The pilot, directed by Janicza Bravo, has led to an eight-episode series order Octavia E. Butler‘s Kindred is officially coming to FX. An adaptation of the acclaimed American author’s 1979 science ...