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Xenogenesis

Xenogenesis

Hard Sci-FiSocial Sci-Fi
Pages
264
Published
1987
Language
English

Synopsis

When the Oankali, a genetically engineered species, is forced to breed with humans to save its own dying race, the resulting hybrid offspring begin to outnumber and reshape human society. Octavia E. Butler's Hugo Award-winning novel explores themes of gender, power, and the ethics of forced biological transformation through the eyes of Lilith Iyapo, a woman caught at the center of a radical and unsettling transformation.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

DarkThought-ProvokingTense
First ContactSurvivalMorally GreyBetrayal

Genres

Hard Sci-Fi Social Sci-Fi Science Fiction

About the author

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Octavia E. Butler

An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. [Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]: Octavia E Butler (1947–2006) > I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler's Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I'd never heard of her...