The Folio Society is releasing a gorgeous edition of Octavia Butler's "Kindred"

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Also, note that there’s a sweet boxed set of the Parable books due out soon:

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Added to wish list for holiday gifts! :heavy_check_mark:

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Once you read it, Kindred is like a stubbornly burning fire that refuses to go out, it just stays with you and burns. As it should. The 1970s aspects that would date this book are clear but minor, the majority of the story being persistently current.

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I was a customer of the folio Society, but not any more after their disgraceful treatment of Art Spiegelman.

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