![]() ![]() For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations-whether their new hosts like it or not. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali-who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth-the last stage of the planet’s final war. But you know what? I actually really enjoyed this one. I’d never heard of it (even though I HAD heard of Butler’s Kindred), and I hadn’t exactly had the best encounters with the other science fiction books that I had had to read for my course. And sure, analysing the heck out of them *sometimes* takes the fun out of reading them for pleasure, but hey, at the end of the day, you’ve read a book that is new to you and that’s good! With Dawn, it was like that. The one good thing about studying English at university, is that you have to read books that you never dreamt of reading, books that you didn’t even know existed. ![]()
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