Book #33 of 2016: Imago by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis #3) This is the final book in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy (also called Lilith’s Brood, which is such a worse and more misleading title). Then again, calling these books a trilogy is misleading in its own way: they do build on one another as the …
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Book Review: Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
Book #25 of 2016: Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis #2) I feel like I still don’t really get this series, which is somewhat less than ideal given that I’m now two-thirds of the way through it. Butler does a good job of making her aliens, well, alien, but more often than not that …
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Book Review: Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
Book #17 of 2016: Dawn by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis #1) Dawn is the first novel in a trilogy by Octavia Butler, known alternately as Lilith’s Brood and Xenogenesis. This first book was good, albeit a little bleak. (But, I mean, it’s from the author of the Parable books, Kindred, and Fledgling. Bleakness was not …
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