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Summary: Mini series potential!
Review: From the complete novel Xenogenesis Lilith Iyapo has just awakened from a 250 year nap. The Earth she once new no longer exists, destroyed by mankind. A strange new alien world has taken its place. Lilith and the remaining survivors have to make a choice: Live long, sterile, childless lives or breed with an alien race and replenish the Earth. This is a very thought provoking situation in which the life of a race is more important than your own prejudices. Xenogenesis should be required reading. Long life Lilith, where ever you are.
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Summary: Wonderful Series! Just Wonderful!
Review: Before I selected an omnibus called Xenogenesis from the Sci Fi Book club (containing: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago), I had never heard of Octavia Butler. Am I glad I selected this accidentally when I joined the club (Mainly because it said it had three books in it). While most of the free books I received were average to no good, The Xenogenesis Series was exceptionally great!
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Summary: Wonderful Series! Just Wonderful!
Review: Before I selected an omnibus called Xenogenesis from the Sci Fi Book club (containing: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago), I had never heard of Octavia Butler. Am I glad I selected this accidentally when I joined the club (Mainly because it said it had three books in it). While most of the free books I received were average to no good, The Xenogenesis Series was exceptionally great!
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Summary: Wonderful.
Review: Better than "Dawn," the first of the series, and slightly better than the finale, "Imago." All 3 are OUTSTANDING. Save money by buying "Lilith's Brood," which contains all 3. See "Lilith's Brood" for more about each book.
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Summary: Best of the Xenogenesis Series by a Very Narrow Margin
Review: Better than "Dawn," the first of the series, and slightly better than the finale, "Imago." All 3 are OUTSTANDING. Save money by buying "Lilith's Brood," which contains all 3. See "Lilith's Brood" for more about each book.
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Summary: Could you, would you, breed with giant slugs to survive?
Review: Butler continues the story she began with Dawn, and this time it's even better. The earth is being repopulated with modified humans while infertile resisters (humans who refused to give up their human genetics) try desperately to deal with their lack of children. The main character is a construct (a new type of human) who learns to understand both the resisters and his own kind. As in dawn Butler seems to be overly pesimistic about human nature, but her human character now have more depth and are easier to relate to.
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Summary: Good book, better than Dawn.
Review: Butler continues the story she began with Dawn, and this time it's even better. The earth is being repopulated with modified humans while infertile resisters (humans who refused to give up their human genetics) try desperately to deal with their lack of children. The main character is a construct (a new type of human) who learns to understand both the resisters and his own kind. As in dawn Butler seems to be overly pesimistic about human nature, but her human character now have more depth and are easier to relate to.
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Summary: Integral to the 3 part story
Review: Butler uses her skills as a Science fiction writer to make all of us think about what defines our humanity. It's a test that has no correct answers except to survive. Only a leap of faith and fear aids Butlers characters through their Adulthood Rites.
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Summary: Integral to the 3 part story
Review: Butler uses her skills as a Science fiction writer to make all of us think about what defines our humanity. It's a test that has no correct answers except to survive. Only a leap of faith and fear aids Butlers characters through their Adulthood Rites.
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Summary: Could you, would you, breed with giant slugs to survive?
Review: Humans had finally destroyed themselves and the planet Earth. This book continues the story of the few human survivors who had been captured by a revolting looking but talented alien race and forced to breed with them in order to perpetuate the genes of the human species within a new hybrid race. Most of the book revolves around two ideas, the innate human tendency toward violence and the unwillingness of people to accept others who are different. Those in the book who resist the breeding situation and run away to create their own childless communities are portrayed as an endlessly cranky group, a microcosm of the race who destroyed their own Earth. Every time you read an episode about them they're committing violent acts. They have an especially difficult time in accepting members of the next generation, the hybrids who are only part human. The dilemma posed in the book is that the only way to save the species is to accept and trust the non-human as well as the human. I found the main character, a hybrid child, really interesting, and the book as a whole intellectually stimulating and full of challenge and ideas.
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