{"id":12719,"date":"2025-08-21T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/12719\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T00:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:31:08","slug":"babel-author-r-f-kuangs-new-book-katabasis-in-the-works-as-amazon-tv-series-from-writer-angela-kang-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/12719\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Babel\u2019 Author R.F. Kuang\u2019s New Book \u2018Katabasis\u2019 in the Works as Amazon TV Series From Writer Angela Kang (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week out from publication, \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0449467\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Babel<\/a>\u201d and \u201cYellowface\u201d author <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12283364\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">R.F. Kuang<\/a>\u2019s new fantasy novel \u201cKatabasis\u201d is already in the works as a TV series at <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1025982\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon MGM Studios<\/a>. \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1520211\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Walking Dead<\/a>\u201d showrunner <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1764891\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angela Kang<\/a> is set as writer and showrunner on the project.<\/p>\n<p>Releasing Aug. 26 from Harper Voyager Publishing, <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10872901\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kuang<\/a>\u2019s \u201cKatabasis\u201d is a fantastical academic satire that follows Alice Law, a graduate student studying Magick at <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0103077\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cambridge University<\/a>, as she descends into the underworld to retrieve her deceased advisor, Professor <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4568245\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grimes<\/a>, in order to get his recommendation to secure her future after graduation. Alice\u2019s academic rival, <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3495044\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Murdoch<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A week out from publication, \u201cBabel\u201d and \u201cYellowface\u201d author R.F. Kuang\u2019s new fantasy novel \u201cKatabasis\u201d is already in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[1241,1242,359,434,1243,18,117,1237,1239,19,17,327,5,1240,1238,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-12719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-directors","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-films","16":"tag-hollywood","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-movies","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-stars","22":"tag-television","23":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}