Dawn

Butler, Octavia

ISBN 10: 0446513636 / ISBN 13: 9780446513630

Published by Warner Books, 1987

About this Item

Hardcover with dustjacket : like new / fine. Jacket in mylar protector. Full number line on copyright page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 128489

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dawn
• Publisher: Warner Books
• Publication Date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0446513636
• ISBN 13: 9780446513630
• Binding: Hard Cover with Dustjacket
• Edition: First Edition First Printing.
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror

About this title

Synopsis

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

Review

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.