The Innovation of a New Writing Style
If I were to read Kindred with no knowledge of the time it was written, I would have placed it squarely in the 2000s, maybe even 2010s. I would have thought “what a well researched portrait of the 1970s and 1800s”. The sentence structure, the element of hyper-detail, emotional description, and the quintessentially modern feel of the work would have immediately thrown me off from its real publication date of 1979. It lies in such contrast to other science fiction novels I've read, specifically in its depth with regards to emotional matters, and I think it is that factor that makes it such a revolutionary piece (my main body of reference is Isaac Asimov, Stephen King, Jules Verne, and Andy Weir, though I’m pretty sure the theme holds at least relatively well among other writers). I personally wouldn’t choose to consume media in this style on my own. It doesn’t appeal to me, and I think now it’s perhaps overdone (but that’s of course a matter of personal o...