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Summary: A Fabulous Trilogy with Believable Characters
Review: Don't bother to waste time reading the rest of this review (or any of the others). Just immediately buy/order/borrow all three books in this trilogy. They were fabulous!I'm normally a fantasy reader and find sci-fi a bit dry. But Butler's characters are so real, so compelling and beautifully realized that they painlessly bring you to a contemplation of what it means to be human in all our beauty and painful inadequacy. I gobbled these books down one after the other in two days; they're just wonderful. It's nice if the fact that the protagonist is African-American is affirming for some folks, but I do have to say that to classify this as "African-American" writing is to limit it. Octavia Butler is a fabulous, interesting, insightful writer about the human (ok...and the alien) condition, and she and her heroine could be green with yellow polka dots. The fact that the books offer some racial insight was just a bonus for me.
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Summary: This was the one that started it all
Review: For me, this was the book that introduced me to the world of Octavia Butler. It was given to me by a friend who said I would enjoy it; primarily because of the Sci-fi nature. But once I began reading it I felt my mind just suck in the words. I finished the book so fast I began thursting for more (and eventually found the rest of her books). Today, I own all of Butler's books and recommend that everyone read them. Dawn is as thought provoking and challenging as the rest of her books. It's an introduction to "human-extraterrestrial" relationships that should be explored. How would you feel locked in a room and only being exposed to a being who will not communicate with you? For me, Dawn helped expose me to the realities that humans are more vulnerable than we want to believe. We live in our "perfect" lil' world, with our "perfect" lil' lives and we think it all "honky-dory." I suggest buying this book and exposing yourself to some ideas that may be based in truth, or if nothing else, test your belief in humankind.
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Summary: slow start
Review: I always look for a good series of science fiction novels, and being a bit compulsive, I begin at the beginning. Unfortunately, in contrast to her other novels, I found this one rather lugubrious and static, its action stilted. Fortunately, I perservered, as the remaining novels in the series are utterly superb and up to her usual standards. This is uusually the reverse: a series starts out well and then gets over-played, developed beyond the poitn they should have been. At any rate, though this is the worst of the series, it should be read.
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Summary: I never put it down and had to stay up all night to finish!
Review: I felt that Dawn was a great idea and I think it could be made into a fabulous movie or tv show now that movie technology can keep up with the elaborate descriptions of alien lifeforms and activities. I am excited to continue with the second book, and I would suggest this book to anyone who wishes to read some sci-fi that is really fresh and original.
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Summary: excellent and lean sci-fi
Review: I read a lot of sci-fi and find that in every book there are some descriptive paragraphs which I skip to get to the meat of the story. I read the entire Xenogenesis series and was suprised that there wasn't a paragraph that I skipped. It's beautiful and powerful. It's sci-fi with emotion. It's one of the best novels I ever read.
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Summary: Looking for this book for years
Review: I read this book around 1991. A friend had told me that this is just part one of the series. I read the book and couldn't put it down. I was enchanted with the cover. (the cover was different than the one shown now after the reprint)Years later, I remembered this book and wanted to read it again, but for the life of me I couldn't remember the author , or the title of the book.. I went crazy looking in every bookstore physically and even through the internet. I remembered vague details but could remember about the alien species and the things that happened to the character in this story. I then rembered that the author was a woman. I began searching for every sci fi female author and ran across Octavia Butler. For some reason, this name struck me as being familiar...but I wasn't sure. I searched through the books she wrote and looked for reviews, anything that could help me find out if this was her. Sure enough, they had mentioned bits of the story and I was awestruck. I went out and purchased the whole series and then some. The bookstore had only a limited amount of copies. I read this book for the second time yesterday. I am excited to read the next 2 in her series for the first time after nearly 13 years after reading the first book.
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Summary: Looking for this book for years
Review: I read this book around 1991. A friend had told me that this is just part one of the series. I read the book and couldn't put it down. I was enchanted with the cover. (the cover was different than the one shown now after the reprint)Years later, I remembered this book and wanted to read it again, but for the life of me I couldn't remember the author , or the title of the book.. I went crazy looking in every bookstore physically and even through the internet. I remembered vague details but could remember about the alien species and the things that happened to the character in this story. I then rembered that the author was a woman. I began searching for every sci fi female author and ran across Octavia Butler. For some reason, this name struck me as being familiar...but I wasn't sure. I searched through the books she wrote and looked for reviews, anything that could help me find out if this was her. Sure enough, they had mentioned bits of the story and I was awestruck. I went out and purchased the whole series and then some. The bookstore had only a limited amount of copies. I read this book for the second time yesterday. I am excited to read the next 2 in her series for the first time after nearly 13 years after reading the first book.
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Summary: This is a great Science Ficton book!
Review: I really loved this book in every way. It`s simply the best science fiction book anyone could write. If octavia is reading this i just want to say that your a GREAT writer! And i have to confess that I`m simply a Teenager but it dosent matter, I loved it. My dream is to be a writer when I`m older and you are a perfect row model!
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Summary: Original.
Review: I've read a *lot* of science fiction, and never before have I met aliens like these. Creepy critters! The humans are believable; they do exactly what you'd expect. A really cool book! A really cool trilogy, actually
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Summary: First book of the Lilith's Brood trilogy
Review: If you are a sci-fi reader that wants to read about genetics, evolution and aliens. This is your series and don't stop after this book. IT WILL GET MUCH BETTER, three generations worth of it. Octavia butler in her early sci-fi work is how can I call it. A genius. She pushes the imagination with a basis in reality. She's easy to read and in the series has much reference to sexuality maybe because of her age or era in which she wrote the series. Great book/series. MUST HAVE
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