Certainly there is much to be said about Butler's work, but Kindred fell short of my expectations. I tried, and stopped, reading this novel several times, and decided I would read it regardless. It was difficult to understand the mechanism of the time travel (yes, it just happens). That is fine, but reality was never suspended for me. The novel felt like a forced exploration of a topic that is important, and probably hard to write, but in there somewhere. It is just hard to see what Butler was after in this novel.
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