This series marks the first on-screen adaptation of Kindred, with previous adaptations being both an audio play and a graphic novel. Butler's other works -- including the Patternist and Lilith's Brood series -- dive much deeper into the science-fiction genre, featuring extraterrestrials, ...
common in science fiction, is used as a mechanism to place twentieth century characters in the situation of slavery, although the science of Dana’s travel is never explained. Less graphic in its depictions of brutality than most slave