First printing stated, full number line. Light rubbing along the lower board edges. Peanut-sized (shelled) stain and a few other soil spots on the fore edge. Stainless damp ripple along the lower margins. Very nice dust jacket however.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Dawn: Xenogenesis

Publisher

Random House

Publication Date

1987

Language

English

ISBN 10

0446513636

ISBN 13

9780446513630

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fair

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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Speculative Fiction

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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.

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