Dawn (Xenogenesis, Bk. 1)

Lilith lyapo awoke from a centuries-long sleep to find herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. Creatures covered in writhing tentacles, the Oankali had saved every surviving human from a dying, ruined Earth. They healed the planet, cured cancer, increased strength, and were now ready to help Lilith lead her people back to Earth--but for a price. ** Amazon.com Review In a world devastated by nuclear war with humanity on the edge of extinction, aliens finally make contact. They rescue those humans they can, keeping most survivors in suspended animation while the aliens begin the slow process of rehabilitating the planet. When Lilith Iyapo is "awakened," she finds that she has been chosen to revive her fellow humans in small groups by first preparing them to meet the utterly terrifying aliens, then training them to survive on the wilderness that the planet has become. But the aliens cannot help humanity without altering it forever. Bonded to the aliens in ways no human has ever known, Lilith tries to fight them even as her own species comes to fear and loathe her. A stunning story of invasion and alien contact by one of science fiction's finest writers. About the Author Octavia E. Butler was the first black woman to come to international prominence as a science fiction writer. Incorporating powerful, spare language and rich, well-developed characters, her work tackled race, gender, religion, poverty, power, politics, and science in a way that touched readers of all backgrounds. Butler was a towering figure in life and in her art and the world noticed; highly acclaimed by reviewers, she received numerous awards, including a MacArthur "genius" grant, both the Hugo and Nebula awards, the Langston Hughes Medal, as well as a PEN Lifetime Achievement award. Enter Series Index : 01 of 03 Calc Series Group : Xenogenesis Test Search : Dawn / Octavia E. Butler Test Compare Series to Entered: eq Formats : EPUB Title Pre Pound : Dawn ES Cover Quality : ICBF ES Suffix : _ Quick Search : Octavia E. Butler Xenogenesis ABook : E_Only Has Cover : Yes All Identifiers : amazon:0446603775, ff:b/octavia-e-butler/dawn, goodreads:60929, google:f39gNO_ZqOQC, isbn:9780446603775 Test Text Series Index: 1 Title Parms B to H : - - - - - - Series Parm B : 1 Single Author : Octavia E. Butler Raw Title : Dawn Compare Author : eq Sorted Author by LN, FN: Butler, Octavia E. EBook : Have Series Parm A : Xenogenesis Number of Author Names: 3 Number Of Formats : 1 Title After First Parm: Dawn Title Length : 4 Title Parm A : Dawn Number of Authors : 1 Calc ESI Combined : 01 of 190 ES Group : Serified_E Record ID : 1039 Enter New Series (Calced): Serified_E.Xenogenesis.Scifan.01 of 03._.ICBF Title Pre Colon : Dawn ES Name : Xenogenesis Author Parm A : Octavia E. Butler Uncomma Author : Octavia E. Butler Number of Words in Auth: 3 ES Genre : Scifan Calc New Series : Xenogenesis.... Calc ESI Part 3 : 03 Calc ESI Part 2 : of Calc ESI Part 1 : 01 Custom Series : SIPW.Xenogenesis.Scifan.1._.ICBF Title Pre Parend : Dawn Title First Parm : Dawn Num of Aut : 1 Rescued from Earth's destruction, one woman is called upon to revive mankind Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth-the last stage of the planet's final war. 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. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. 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. The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations-whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet's untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly

Lilith lyapo awoke from a centuries-long sleep to find herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. Creatures covered in writhing tentacles, the Oankali had saved every surviving human from a dying, ruined Earth. They healed the planet, cured cancer, increased strength, and were now ready to help Lilith lead her people back to Earth—but for a price.

Lilith lyapo awoke from a centuries-long sleep to find herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. Creatures covered in writhing tentacles, the Oankali had saved every surviving human from a dying, ruined Earth. They healed the planet, cured cancer, increased strength, and were now ready to help Lilith lead her people back to Earth--but for a price. Reissue.

Lilith Iyapo had just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumed Earth-- the last stage of the planet's final war. Centuries later Lilith awakes, help captive aboard an alien spacecraft. The Oankali arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations-- whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet's untamed wilderness. But their children will more-- and other-- than human. -- adapted from back cover and Goodreads info The human race, now infertile, fights to maintain its identity when the alien species, Oankali, offers to trade genetic material and bioengineering at the price of metamorphosing a new kind of being aliens reproducing with humans. they are mixing genes with humans because humans have destroyed earth basically because nuclear war. because they are stupid. credit to katsoda26