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Imago

Imago

by Octavia E. Butler

1989Fiction, science fiction, generalGenetic engineeringFictionPersoonlijke integriteitGenetisch materiaal
4.4
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First lines

I slipped into my first metamorphosis so quietly that no one noticed.

I slipped into my first metamorphosis so quietly that no one noticed.

About this book

Die Oankali, reisende galaktische Genhaendler, haben die menschliche Spezies als genetische Fehlentwicklung und als Gefahr für die Entwicklung des Lebens im Kosmos erkannt und ihr die Fähigkeit zur Fortpflanzung genommen. Die ersten »Konstruierten«, genetische Mischlinge aus Oankali und Menschen, versuchen zu vermitteln, doch vergeblich. Obwohl die Lage der Erdbewohner verzweifelt ist und die Reste ihrer Zivilisation in Barbarei zu versinken drohen, halten sie an ihrem Fremdenhaß fest und interpretieren ihre Paranoia als Patriotismus und Tapferkeit. Da tritt Jodahs auf, der erste konstruierte Ooloi, Mischling von Oankali und Mensch, der als Geschlechtloser über die Gabe des Genheilens verfügt. Durch seine Abstammung hat er ein menschenähnliches Aussehen, und es gelingt ihm eher, das Vertrauen der Erdbewohner zu gewinnen und ihnen zu helfen, den Abscheu vor dem Fremden zu überwinden. Und durch sein in Jahrmillionen biologisch trainiertes Oankali-Erbe setzt er die stärkste Waffe ein, die es im Universum gibt: die sexuelle Attraktion

Themes & subjects

Fiction, science fiction, generalGenetic engineeringFictionPersoonlijke integriteitGenetisch materiaalMenselijk lichaam
First published 1989

About the author

Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler

June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006

An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. [Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]: Octavia E Butler (1947–2006) > I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler's Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I'd never heard of her – nor have a great many other readers, I suspect. For many years, Butler was the sole African-American woman novelist in science fiction. Kindred tells the wrenching and unforgettable story of a youn…

Author

Octavia E. Butler

First published

1989

Pages

264

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

17

Languages

English, French, Spanish

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

ISBN

9791030706376

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