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      Dawn

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

      About This Book

      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

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      Aliens

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      Jun 1988 Warner ISBN13 9780445205161 ISBN10 0445205164
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