by Octavia E. Butler
My personal favorite sci-fi trilogy. I have reviewed the individual volumes separately:- Dawn- Adulthood Rites- ImagoMind blowing, thought provoking, thrilling stuff. (Plenty more hyperbole in the above mentioned reviews!) One thing I particularly want to mention about the author is I love how she e...
It's been a few months since I read this, but I realized I'd not reviewed it and wanted to put in a few words.I can't express to you how refreshing it was to read an African American female protagonist who didn't speak with urban slang, who wasn't worried about finding a man and, in general, didn't ...
Sometimes it can be tricky to read a series in an omnibus like this. You don't get the chance to read and experience each book individually. However as a whole, this series was practically a masterpiece for me. It is so engrossing and thought-provoking. I've always considered myself an optimistic pe...
Cool presentation simultaneously of a post-apocalyptic setting and a geocentric aliens narrative. The aliens aren't quite right, but they're not caricatures of the genocidal maniacs from Wells, either--they conceive of themselves as "traders," mostly in genetic material, and they appear to be pure ...
It's on ebook now. Yays! :)
There aren't very many books that really address how the utopian vision went wrong. Butler gives us our world almost destroyed by war, with the survivors, and the planet itself, rescued by aliens. Then she shows us how a peaceful society can be destroyed by dissent and hopelessness, and saved when...
Recently I've been reading a lot of YA speculative fiction because that's where much of the energy seems to be in the genre right now. There's some good stuff out there too. Then I recently reread Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossessed and shortly after that picked up Lilith's Brood as part of my readin...
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