![]() ![]() ![]() It's an unusual story of a post-apocalyptic alien invasion. She also wrote stories that were often disturbing - I think few authors could get away with what she did in Fledgling, for example.ĭawn is the first novel in the Xenogenesis series. ![]() Her stories of time travel, vampires, and aliens made statements about power relationships and consent between beings that weren't always human, but her human characters were also affected by race and class and gender. ![]() Octavia Butler, the late, lamented genius of SF, wrote stories that were very much statements about race, sex, and power, and most of it was fairly close to the surface. A stunning story of invasion and alien contact by one of science fiction's finest writers. But the aliens cannot help humanity without altering it forever.īonded to the aliens in ways no human has ever known, Lilith tries to fight them even as her own species comes to fear and loathe her. When Lilith Iyapo is "awakened", she finds that she has been chosen to revive her fellow humans in small groups by first preparing them to meet the utterly terrifying aliens, then training them to survive on the wilderness that the planet has become. They rescue those humans they can, keeping most survivors in suspended animation while the aliens begin the slow process of rehabilitating the planet. In a world devastated by nuclear war with humanity on the edge of extinction, aliens finally make contact. ![]()
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