![]() ![]() ![]() Each time it has drastically changed its appearance to make its members suitable for symbiotic relationships with others.Īrriving after the war on Earth, the Oankali rescue a few hundred humans from the nuclear devastation, put them into stasis and examine at the molecular level the conditions that caused their illnesses. The Oankali are an alien race that has traveled across the galaxy for thousands of years, adapting itself to one species after another. Her ability to capture the sensuality of human-Oankali mating far transcends most writing about sexuality but here with full recognition of issues of race, oppression and identity explored in detail.īutler depicts a ruined earth, destroyed by a nuclear war between Russia and the United States that left tiny pockets of surviving humans, mostly in the southern hemisphere. Octavia Butler wrote in her notebooks of how important it was to make people feel deeply through each of her novels, and the Xenogenesis trilogy is a powerful example of how well she succeeded. ![]()
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