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Title: Imago by Octavia E. Butler ISBN: 0-446-60363-5 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.65 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Imago
Comment: If you love watching scfi and not reading the books this is the writer to start with. The first in the xenogenesis series is Dawn I could not put the book down if you could image the earth been destroyed by nuclar war then a alien race comes and saves human kind. The second book Adulthood Rites answer's the question what will the future look like for human kind as a race then the third book Imago shows you what you will become. If you have not read these books you are missing some great writing from a different point of view.
Rating: 4
Summary: Disturbing vision of the future through Butler's eyes.
Comment:
The third book in the Xenogenesis series involves more of the Oankali-Human children born on an earth that will be reaved of its natural resources and left for dead in a scant few centuries.
Butler shocks reader and characters alike -- two of the Human-Oankali children do not take after their parents despite careful genetic planets -- they develop, on their own, into Ooloi -- the most powerful and dangerous creatures of the Oankali race: capable of great healing or concocting lethal poisons from the genetic information that every sense has experienced over their lifetime.
Imago follows first one, then the other ooloi youth as they discover what they are, suffer greatly from lack of skill with the ooloi talents, and loneliness from being the only ones of their kind in the new generation. Eventually they find themselves and manage a sort of stability. The third gender is not as disturbing as it might have been in the hands of a less sensitive author.
This series closes with a solid finality the assimilation of mankind into the Oankali genetics...and the hard fate remaining for the 'purist' humans who choose to terraform another planet to live on, since there will be no earth for them after the Oankali are through.
The series has left me feeling marginally unsettled, given Butler's vision of the future is one that indicates the human race must change if it is to survive en masse
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book...
Comment: this is a wonderful book, but buy "Lilith's Brood" instead, which includes this book and the other two in the trilogy.
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Title: Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler ISBN: 0446603783 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Dawn by Octavia E. Butler ISBN: 0446603775 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler ISBN: 0446361887 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler ISBN: 0446606723 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler ISBN: 0807083054 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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