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I started Kindred yesterday, and got in a fair bit of listening through a bout of insomnia. It's quite a contrast to the white guy power fantasy alt-histories I've been reading and hearing. Thorensen's chief bad guys and some other cultures on his world are conquest slavers, but it hits a little differently when it's "Let's brutalize these people in particular," and that activity happens to be the foundation of the nation where I'm standing, and ongoing in some respects. Butler's prose runs a little passive and bookish, including dialogue, which isn't awesome for audio, but the narration is solid and the story keeps pulling me along.
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