My hope is that these stories might fire up yer engines to remind you of just what a massive twat you also are. Let's celebrate and revel in this most delightful of traits together.

I'm half-tempted to hold off on a review until I read the full trilogy. I've come to understand that the full story isn't explored until we've read the whole thing... BUT since this was published as the first book, here I go, anyway. :)

Green, Michelle Erica. "'There Goes the Neighborhood': Octavia Butler's Demand for Diversity in Utopias." Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Jeffrey W. Hunter and Polly Vedder, vol. 121. Gale, 2000. Originally published in Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference, edited by Jane L. Donawerth and Carol A. Kolmerten, Syracuse University Press, 1994, pp.166–189. Che bel nome, Palestina… Peccato che adesso si chiami Striscia di Gaza o Territori o Cisgiordania o West Bank o … ma non Palestina. At first, she is repulsed by the alienness of her saviors/captors. The Oankali have sensory tentacles all over their bodies, including locations of human sensory organs, with which they perceive the world differently than humans. Stranger still, the Oankali have three sexes: male, female, and Ooloi. Oankali have the ability to perceive genetic biochemistry, but the Ooloi manipulate genetic material to mutate other beings and build offspring from their mates' genetic material. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Octavia E. Butler including rare images from the author’s estate. Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. Dawn is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1961. It is the second in a trilogy (Night, Dawn, and Day) describing Wiesel's experiences or thoughts during and after the Holocaust.

I'm sorry, this book pushed all the wrong buttons for me. It only evoked the resentment I feel for the modern state of Israel and its policies, and I simply couldn't shake off the feeling.

Non-Fiction

This is quite a bit different from Kindred, focusing instead on the social, emotional, and physical changes associated with being awoken in captivity among some very strange and awesome alien-aliens. This isn't Star Trek. It's more of a Cthuhlu encounter without the overarching dread, modifying the humans through drugs and genetic changes and being told that the rest of the human race has wiped itself out with nukes. Butler put her finger squarely on the conflict: The earthlings were given no choice. They were unquestionably manipulated before they were given any chance to comment on these things. They had also just blown their entire planet into an extinction event. Did they deserve a say? Butler gives Lilith the words to complain about the earthlings' treatment and the Oankali to explain but not apologize the whys of it. James "Jimmy" Longchamp: Dawn's adoptive older brother and the son of Ormand and Sally Jean, and older brother of Fern. He is described a hot-tempered and stubborn, but he does have a hidden softer side. He has loved Dawn ever since childhood, but never admitted this due to their upbringing as siblings. Constance, Joseph W and Nora Rawlinson. " Adulthood Rites (Book)." Library Journal 113. 11 15 June 1988 p.70. This powerful book offers a fascinating insight into both the personal and political sides of her journey.'

Belk, Nolan. " The Certainty of the Flesh: Octavia Butler's Use of the Erotic in the Xenogenesis Trilogy." Utopian Studies 19.3 Sept. 2008. The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations—whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet’s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly. Un ebreo, in rappresentanza della sua gente, per sopravvivere deve imparare a odiare, e uccidere: dalla sera all’alba rivede la sua vita, la gente che ha conosciuto, le persone che hanno inciso la sua esistenza, prende la sua decisione e la porta a termine. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Richard’s debut novel is being transformed into a film adaptation, but he’s been keeping the details under wraps. Clara Sue Cutler: The younger sister of Phillip and Dawn. At first she hates Dawn for being prettier and more talented, even though she is "white trash"; after the revelation that they are related, she hates her even more, because she has spent her whole life feeling like she is a replacement for the kidnapped "Eugenia". She is very rebellious and spoiled.Además en este libro se toca el tema de la identidad de género. Los Oankali se emparejan en tríos. Lo que llamaríamos las hembras, los machos, y un tercer género al que llaman Ooloi. Sin este último no pueden tener hijos. When the humans start getting physically aggressive and kill the main character's love interest, I felt nothing. That whole romance subplot was really half-arsed. It was basically just "These two characters are having a threesome with an alien... and that's it". Jesser, Nancy. "Blood, Genes and Gender in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Dawn." Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. Gale, 2008. Originally published in Extrapolation 43. 1, Spring 2002, pp.36–61. What Butler does with deft erudition and literary skill is build a sense of dramatic tension between Lilith and her alien savior / captors. Lilith is a difficult hero, reluctantly taking the lead in re-awakening her fellow humans to be a vanguard of a new civilization and possibly a new race.

Smith, Rachel Greenwald. "Ecology beyond Ecology: Life After the Accident in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy." Modern Fiction Studies 55. 3, Fall 2009, pp.545–565. Peppers, Cathy. "Origins and Alien Identities in Butler's Xenogenesis." Science Fiction Studies 22.1 (1995): 47–62. When I read Octavia Butler’s Patternmaster, I grew impatient with the world building process, and that impatience diminished my pleasure. With Dawn world building is seamlessly intertwined with character development and plot progression. Octavia Butler was clearly in the zone when she wrote Dawn. Dawn has earned a place in my heart next to Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Fledgling novels. Akin's proposal for a Mars colony in the previous book has been realized, providing an opportunity for humans who wish to live independently from the Oankali. Many humans have already migrated there, though the most hateful and barbaric of them still resist so that the Oankali render them unconscious and store them on the ship for genetic material. Virginia Cleo Andrews (born Cleo Virginia Andrews) was born June 6, 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia. The youngest child and the only daughter of William Henry Andrews, a career navy man who opened a tool-and-die business after retirement, and Lillian Lilnora Parker Andrews, a telephone operator. She spent her happy childhood years in Portsmouth, Virginia, living briefly in Rochester, New York. The Andrews family returned to Portsmouth while Virginia was in high school.Octavia Butler doesn’t write comfortable science fiction stories. She wants to challenge the reader with truly alien beings, and then present them in a surprisingly benign and benevolent light, while making humans look ignorant and brutish. Lilith is a fairly tough and independent-minded woman, and that is why they think she can tolerate the extreme psychological dislocation of being awoken aboard an organic alien spaceship. The second book, Adulthood Rites, takes place years after the end of Dawn. Humans and Oankali live together on Earth, but not in complete peace. Some humans have accepted the bargain and live with the Oankali, giving birth to hybrid children called "constructs." Others, however, have refused the bargain and live in separate, all-human, "resister" villages. The Ooloi have made all humans infertile, so the only children born are those made with Ooloi intervention. This creates a great deal of tension and strain as the humans consider their lives meaningless without reproduction, especially as they see themselves being outbred by the Oankali-human constructs. Desperate humans often steal human-looking construct children to raise as their own. Johns, Adam. "Octavia Butler and the Art of Pseudoscience." English Language Notes 47. 2 Fall/Winter 2009.