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Summary: a bit more complex than the space allows
Review: In her Xenogensis series, Butler is exploring how human beings will respond to changes brought by aliens as the humans struggle to survive. This particular book, continues the human race's struggle to adapt and change while maintaining some basic humanity. The characters are numerous and sometimes and the situations are complex but perhaps this complexity is what Butler wants us to feel?
Rating:
Summary: a bit more complex than the space allows
Review: In her Xenogensis series, Butler is exploring how human beings will respond to changes brought by aliens as the humans struggle to survive. This particular book, continues the human race's struggle to adapt and change while maintaining some basic humanity. The characters are numerous and sometimes and the situations are complex but perhaps this complexity is what Butler wants us to feel?
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Summary: Thought-Provoking and Evocative
Review: Octavia Butler continues the Oankali-Human series with this second entry. Akin is the first child born to the blended family of Human and Oankali parents, and as such, is a harbinger of the future to those humans who have accepted the Oankali. He is, however, just as much a symbol of the precious birthright of humanity--forever lost.The human race is divided into two groups only: those who accept the Oankali, and those who refuse to. The former group is permitted its fertility, and produce children with the aliens. The latter group is forbidden to reproduce. Thus is Akin, the most human-looking of the new generation, stolen by the 'purist' humans in an attempt to restore their reproductive freedom to themselves. Again, the portrayal of the characters, both alien and human, is powerful enough that even a reader firmly humanist in opinion may find himself feeling sympathy for the Oankali. The second book in the Xenogenesis series is as powerful a read as the first
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Summary: Wonderful.
Review: This book and the other two in this trilogy are my favorite books. I've read them repeatedly.
Rating:
Summary: very good
Review: This book is about mainly Akin, the one of many children but first one ment to be a son of Lilith Iyapo, was taken by traders and sold to Pheonix where I don't know what happens because I'm right in the middle of that chapter. My advice is get the whole series I have it all in one book which is easier to follow and keep each book in order.
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Summary: a brilliant sequel
Review: This book is far better than the first in the series. I was completely sucked into the characters, concept, and plot. The device of the alien child - a hybrid that is different from humans in obvious but also extremely subtle ways - is a unique creation in sci fi. His journey is fascinating and cruel, which makes a dark philospical statement on human nature. The dialogue is as excellent as you would expect from any fine novelist.
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Summary: a brilliant sequel
Review: This book is far better than the first in the series. I was completely sucked into the characters, concept, and plot. The device of the alien child - a hybrid that is different from humans in obvious but also extremely subtle ways - is a unique creation in sci fi. His journey is fascinating and cruel, which makes a dark philospical statement on human nature. The dialogue is as excellent as you would expect from any fine novelist.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This book was thought-provoking and fascinating. I could barely put it down, even at risk of my wife's anger. Ms. Butler paints a beautiful and yet unsettling picture of possible contact with very different aliens. Akin, in this second book, is easy to identify with despite being only half human. This was a wonderful read.
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Summary: Interesting and unexpected conclusion to the series.
Review: This is a great improvement over the second book of the
Xenogenesis Trilogy. One can empathize with the lead character Akin even though it breaks our human rule of gender
identity as all important.
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Summary: The second in a series, which should be preceded by Dawn
Review: This science fiction work follows up on Ms. Butler's earlier work, Dawn. The book stands alone fairly well, but the story will seem tremendously better placed into context if the reader has read the earlier book, Dawn. Ms. Butler creates yet another of her dystopian earths, but its final crisis is ameliorated by the intervention of an alien species, the oankali. The book tells a crackling good story, but also addresses a key theme--what does it mean to be human? I recommend this book, as it has the old-fashioned virtues of a golden age work, but is told in the fine, well-written style that characterizes Octavia Butler's work. Reading a Butler, one gets the impression that one is watching a grandmaster writing in her prime--and yet, the nice thing about reading her is the sense that the best is yet to come. If you have not read Butler, but you are afraid that sci fi has lost its zing, then read Dawn and this one.
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