![]() ![]() ![]() The rest of the novel then spends its time with Lilith as she trains and then leads this group. Lilith and the humans she is grouped with will simply be the transitory state. The reason? The alien civilization propagates through a shared interchange of genetic material with alien species and the humans that repopulate the Earth will be altered and their children will be the products of a new symbiotic genetic process and will be a whole new species. Now it’s several hundred years later and the alien civilization has been working to rehabilitate Earth for humans they’ve saved to repopulate it. A frustrating wait as she gets used to her new situation reveals that she’s onboard a gigantic living spaceship inhabited by an alien species (kind of two really) and that the Earth as she knows it was rendered uninhabitable by nuclear war. In this novel, Lilith awakes in some kind of captivity. ![]() A novel about significant and existentially nightmarish changes to our genes, coupled with a total helplessness to do anything about it except acquiesce is something else. She’s so good at exploring issues related to gender, our bodies, consent, sexuality, and our brains and demonstrating horror and disgust without getting didactic about it. ![]() I hope no one ever comes for Octavia Butler. ![]()
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