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      Dawn

      by Octavia E. Butler
      Published
      May 1987
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      Science Fiction Sci-Fi
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      258
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      Xenogenesis Book 1

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      Lilith Iyapo is in the remote Andes, mourning the death of her husband and son, when nuclear war destroys the world. Centuries later, she revives, held captive aboard a starship.

      Miraculously powerful and hideously grotesque galactic beings, the Oankali have rescued the planet and the war's victims out of an irresistible need to heal and a greater need to change all they touch. For the Oankali survive by merging genetically with primitive peoples-- without their permission.

      Lilith's children will inherit the Earth and stars. But they will be more--and other--than human.

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      Speculative Fiction

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      Science Fiction

      Characters & Occupations

      Aliens

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