Dawn (Xenogenesis, Bk. 1)
by Octavia E. Butler

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• ISBN13: 9780446603775
• Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Dawn (Xenogenesis, Bk. 1)

Book Review: A Fabulous Trilogy with Believable Characters
Summary: 5 Stars

I'm normally a fantasy reader and find sci-fi a bit dry. But Butler's characters are so real, so compelling and beautifully realized that they painlessly bring you to a contemplation of what it means to be human in all our beauty and painful inadequacy.

I gobbled these books down one after the other in two days; they're just wonderful.

It's nice if the fact that the protagonist is African-American is affirming for some folks, but I do have to say that to classify this as "African-American" writing is to limit it. Octavia Butler is a fabulous, interesting, insightful writer about the human (ok...and the alien) condition, and she and her heroine could be green with yellow polka dots. The fact that the books offer some racial insight was just a bonus for me.

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