Adulthood Rites
1988Genetic engineeringFictionFiction, science fiction, generalHuman-alien encountersPersoonlijke integriteit
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He remembered much of his stay in the womb.
He remembered much of his stay in the womb.
About this book
The second book in the Lilith's Brood trilogy, this story takes place years after the arrival of Oankali aliens in the first book. Now, the Oankali have established some colonies on Earth, where they live and breed with humans. Other villages are populated by human resisters, who refuse to interact or breed with the Oankali but are frustrated because they can no longer reproduce on their own and feel they have no future. Akin, a boy "construct" born with mixed human and Oankali DNA, confronts these tensions between the two species and grapples with his own identity.
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Genetic engineeringFictionFiction, science fiction, generalHuman-alien encountersPersoonlijke integriteitGenetisch materiaal
First published 1988About the author
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…
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