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The human race, now infertile, fights to maintain its identity when the alien species, Oankali, offers to trade genetic material and bioengineering at the price of metamorphosing a new kind of being
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In a world devastated by nuclear war with humanity on the edge of extinction, aliens finally make contact. They rescue those humans they can, keeping most survivors in suspended animation while the aliens begin the slow process of rehabilitating the planet. When Lilith Iyapo is "awakened," she finds that she has been chosen to revive her fellow humans in small groups by first preparing them to meet the utterly terrifying aliens, then training them to survive on the wilderness that the planet has become. But the aliens cannot help humanity without altering it forever. Bonded to the aliens in ways no human has ever known, Lilith tries to fight them even as her own species comes to fear and loathe her. A stunning story of invasion and alien contact by one of science fiction's finest writers.
About the Author
Octavia E. Butler is author of many novels, including Adulthood Rites and The Parable of the Sower. She is the winner of the Nebula Award and twice winner of the Hugo Award.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first printing. Fine- to Near Fine++ hardback in a Very Good++ unclipped dust jacket with a touch of soiling to its back and some light creasing along the top rear edge. A clean, attractive copy of this uncommon title. Seller Inventory # 013177
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Dawn Xenogenesis 1
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Gollancz London, Great Britain, 1987
ISBN 10: 0575041900
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small tear to fore-edge of dust jacket. Some minor wear and staining to dust jacket. Bright colouring. Price intact. Some minor bumping to top and bottom of spine. Minor foxing to top edge of book. Otherwise a nice, bright copy. Seller Inventory # 025
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Dawn / Xenogenesis: I [Signed]
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Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1987
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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1987. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in unclipped glossy pictorial dust jacket; [8],264pp. Light shelf wear, some brief soil to jacket panels and textblock margins, front hinge very slightly starting, else Very Good and sound. Title page signed and dated by the author 10-17-95. The first volume in the author's Lilith's Brood trilogy, written in reaction to the first Reagan presidency. The action is set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse when the protagonist Lilith, a Black human, is rescued by the Oankali, a species of visiting alien who hope to reestablish the human race on Earth--sans technology. Signed. Seller Inventory # 34087