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Chrishayden
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Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 - 02:17 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

The late Octavia Butler wrote the trilogy Dawn, Adulthood Rites and Imago during the 80's and they were compiled and published in one volume titled Lilith's Brood in 2000.

One of the few Science Fiction works featuring a black woman lead character (Butler was one of the few Blacks who has written extensively in Science Fiction) and some interesting musings on what it is to be human, the future of humanity, and social and racial relations.
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Dakota
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Lilith's Brood is highly recommended. I read the trilogy a couple of years ago and it's one of my favorites.
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Chrishayden
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I like her two Parable books better actually--

Of the trilogy I thought Dawn was the best--she started off really good writing about Lillith but then dropped my interest in writing about her half alien children--

Admittedly it is a brave thing to do to write a novel from the POV of an alien (the third one Imago she wrote in the first person!)after all, what do you have to compare it to in real life--but I would have found a far more fascinating book in dealing with the racial and ethical sociological and psychological issues facing Lilith and her co survivors.

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