{"id":81371,"date":"2025-08-21T00:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/81371\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T00:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:32:11","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.newsbeep.com\/uk\/81371\/","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":81372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[28267,28268,457,6491,24823,96,11943,123,2839,50,1588,3133,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-81371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-books","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}