An aspiring writer finds herself at the center of a stranger-than-fiction story in “Kindred,” FX’s long-awaited Octavia Butler adaptation. “I was here, and then suddenly I wasn’t here,” says Dana (newcomer Mallori Johnson) in a new teaser for the sci-fi series. The young Black woman is being pulled back and forth between the present day and Antebellum times.

The spot sees Dana being ripped from her home in LA to a plantation in Maryland, where she’s chased and physically attacked. “I don’t understand what’s happening to me. Am I crazy?” she asks.

“Kindred” was published in 1979.

The recipient of two Nebula awards and two Hugo awards, Butler’s other books