Xenogenesis: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, & Imago
Hardcover, science fiction.
Hardcover, science fiction.
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Format: Hardcover
ASIN: B001TWUQIE
Publish date: 1989
Publisher: Guild America Books
Pages no: 726
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Feminism,
Speculative Fiction,
Aliens,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Gender
Series: Xenogenesis (#1)
I picked this up because it’s the favorite book of a close friend. I’m not a fan of Science Fiction. It’s usually too heady and symbolic, filled with names I can’t pronounce and languages that I can’t understand. I was happy that this lacked the latter but it was very heavy on the former. In a n...
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 ...