Lilith, the name is important for the reference, awakens on an alien ship, long after the human race has almost destroyed itself (doomsday). The problem is that in order for the human race to continue live, Lilith must work with aliens who will make the humans a bit more than human. The book is m...
Dawn by Octavia Butler appears on a lot of must read lists for a reason. The way the humans react to their captivity, to the aliens, and to each other makes the reader take a hard look at humanity. It's very easy to not like what you see. It's easy to want to walk away from a book that leaves you wi...
Series: Xenogenesis #1 I didn’t like this book. I know I’m the odd one out here, but nothing about it really worked for me. The writing style didn’t draw me in, to start with. It’s hard to explain why, exactly. It just didn’t. It felt clumsy and awkward. I think the main reason I finished it was t...
Book Riot Read Harder Challenge Item: The First Book in a Series by a Person of ColorSo, now I know why Octavia Butler is such a big deal.I first acquired this book used about 10 years ago after a random stranger recommended her in a comment on a Livejournal post. Thank you, stranger, wherever you a...
After being awoken by Oankali (aliens) Lilith Iyapo finds out that it has been 250 years since human beings sparked a nuclear war and wiped out most of the inhabitants of Earth. The Oankali came along and found survivors with the hopes that one day they would be able to breed with the humans in orde...
This is the first book I’ve read by Octavia E. Butler, and I see I’ve been missing out! I’ve put off a lot of things I needed and wanted to do this weekend in order to read this book instead. Fortunately it was only 248 pages, so I managed to finish it before my weekend was completely shot! Now if I...
Can humans and tentacle beings co-exist? Creepy, speculative fiction with lots of tentacles that brought a genuine sense of suspicion, hopelessness, fear and seduction. Amazing character in Lilith Iyapo who wrestles with conflicting objectives of self preservation and maintaining your humanity.201...
I read this for the first contact category in my SF Reading Challenge. Centuries after a nuclear war destroys civilization on Earth, the main character, Lilith Iyapo, awakes to discover that she is held captive aboard a starship. Her captors, the Oankali, have rescued the remaining humans and rest...
I admit...I love the presence of Octavia Butler. I loved what she stood for, creating complex characters, particularly Black women, in thought provoking worlds, in Speculative Fiction and SFF no less. But up until now, I haven't actually read her work. This has now changed with "Dawn" first book in ...
Recommended for fans of sci-fi, aliens 4 stars for personal enjoyment, 5 stars for quality As one of the earliest African-American female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler is a must for anyone who reads sci-fi. Fourteen of her works were nominated for the Locus Award during her career, inclu...
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