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Dawn (Xenogenesis, Bk. 1)
by: Octavia E. Butler

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446603775
ISBN: 0446603775
Label: Aspect
Manufacturer: Aspect
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: April 01, 1997
Publisher: Aspect
Sales Rank: 180104
Studio: Aspect

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Known for her African-American feminist perspective, the author presents the first installment of a trilogy exploring the death of the earth as we know it and the advent of interbreeding between humans and extraterrestrials. Reissue.

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In a world devastated by nuclear war with humanity on the edge of extinction, aliens finally make contact. They rescue those humans they can, keeping most survivors in suspended animation while the aliens begin the slow process of rehabilitating the planet. When Lilith Iyapo is 'awakened,' she finds that she has been chosen to revive her fellow humans in small groups by first preparing them to meet the utterly terrifying aliens, then training them to survive on the wilderness that the planet has become. But the aliens cannot help humanity without altering it forever. Bonded to the aliens in ways no human has ever known, Lilith tries to fight them even as her own species comes to fear and loathe her. A stunning story of invasion and alien contact by one of science fiction's finest writers.

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- A Good Series Opener
Lilith is a young woman saved by an alien race known as the Oankali after the superpowers of the time (US/USSR)nuked the world. The Oankali mix their genes with those of other races to evolve, and they have decided that what is left of humanity should be used for this purpose. Lilith is used by the Oankali as a messenger, an ambassador of sorts, to introduce other rescued humans to the Oankali and share the Oankali's intentions for the remainder of mankind.

This book addresses many moral complexities of man. Butler uses the setting of her novel to focus on issues of human sexuality (the ooloi and manner of Oankali reproduction), the "human conflict" (in spite of their plight, the humans still exhibit hierarchical behavior when they should be uniting), and the self-destructive nature of man (a man-made war destroys civilation and mankind continues on a smaller-scale self-destructive path). On the surface, ... Read More

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- SF Classic, apocalypse / slavery / gender themes
I'm glad I finally got around to sampling Octavia Butler's SF. She's top-notch, and I only wish I'd found her sooner. "Dawn" is a superior treatment of a classic SF theme that projects troubling here-and-now events into a crescendo of violence that results in the destruction of humanity. This sets the stage for a scenario that posits deliverance at the price of universal slavery to an alien race; a deliverance that will end in extinction as complete as, and far more spiritually devastating than, that already accomplished by fulfillment of the alleged human genetic imperative to self-destruct.

Butler handles this weighty theme with deftness and indirection. The reality of Ounkali domination of every aspect of human life, right down to the neural and cellular level, is masked by the emotional allure of apparently reciprocal inter-species attachments and obligations, and further finessed by the human genetic ... Read More

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- Not Free SF Reader
This odd series I didn't find too interesting. Maybe I would if I was an invading alien sex therapist. This is almost a horror story, with how creepy it is in parts. Condescending aliens treating people at times how people treat animals, which perhaps it part of the point?

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- Lilith's Struggle
The war is over. Nuclear winter sets in and what is left of humanity squabbles over ever-dwindling resources. Enter the Oankali. An extraterrestrial race who picked up the last vestiges of humanity (and put them into stasis) and took them to their ship orbiting beyond our moon.

Lilith Iyapo was among the last vestiges of humanity picked up and taken to the Oankali ship. Lilith was the human the Oankali chose to become the bridge between themselves and humanity. The Oankali are going to save us from ourselves and they enlist Lilith's help; but there is a price, and that price may be so high that not only may Lilith Iyapo fail in her job to bridge the gap between the two sentient cultures, it may tear the remaining humans apart...leaving no chance to rebuild the once-great civilization that once populated planet Earth.

Octavia E. Butler's Dawn is beautifully written. Lilith, who has so much internal ... Read More

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