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DAWN

by Butler, Octavia



  • Bookseller: Top Shelf Books.com US (US)
  • Seller Inventory #: 000121
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Book condition: Fine
  • Jacket condition: Poor
  • Illustrator: Enric
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0446513636
  • ISBN 13: 9780446513630
  • Publisher: Warner Books
  • Date published: 1987

Description

Warner Books, 1987. Hardcover first edition, first printing. Not a remainder nor ex-library. Fine (unread) copy in Poor jacket. (Thumbnail-sized jacket abrasion measuring 1.5 x 1.0 cm square on rear panel.) A excellent copy with an expendable jacket to marry to a superior jacket. First book in Butler's acclaimed Xenogensis series. "[F]ine, if at times harrowing, novel, like much of Butler's work, can be read as an allegory of sorts for the African-American experience in the United States." Barron (ed.) Anatomy of Wonder (1995) *4-85. Clute, Notable Works 1985-1989, pg. 194 in Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Poor. Illus. by Enric.




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Book summary

In this first book of Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis series, Lilith Iyapo awakens to find herself a captive on a spaceship. Her last memory is of a time two and a half centuries earlier when she was traveling in the Andes, mourning the death of her family. A nuclear war devastated the planet, and the alien Oankali came to rescue the survivors, restore the planet, and harvest its genetic material, particularly that of the humans. They intend to train Lilith and the others to live on the newly forested Earth, where humans and Oankali will establish communities...and interbreed. When Lilith learns of the plan, she must decide whether cooperating with the Oankali would be the ultimate betrayal of humanity--or the only way to save it.


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