Blog Post 5 - Kindred

            Octavia Butler writing style is usually about young people who are often African-American. They are usually in some kind of struggle and or danger to themselves that they must find a way out of. As for her sci-fi writing the only way I can think of it, is that she must have dreamed up these weird scenario that she writes about in her books. Each story she writes about has almost nothing in common with the any of the previous books that she has written while that it seem to me that she tries to come up with a wide verity of different sci-fi theory’s that she tries out. One book is based in space with a spaceship orbiting a dying earth while trying to fix the dying plant and humanity. While another on has to deal with a girl that doesn’t know that she is a vampire and having to deal with the knowledge of what she truly is. Then we have Kindred the book we are reading in class which has to do with time travel. As for the time period she was in, I would think that she was an innovator because she was trying thing that other writers didn’t think of or even want to write about. As well as pervading a different look at different sci-fi theories that may have been on seen as one way like time travel, vampires and so on.

Knowing more about Octavia style and how she writes in other book and thought process doesn’t really make me think any different or my perspective about the kindred book. I would have to read a few of her book to get a real good feel for Octavia Butler and he style. Reading a quiet summary of a book doesn’t really do justice to the whole book and the writer. I do enjoy reading the book once the action started to pick up and have jumped a few pages to see where all the good parts are in the next chapter.