![]() ![]() Butler at times could be a bit to on the nose with her imagery. The aliens are genetic manipulators that go from world to world collecting gene samples and creating new species, mining and using up the worlds until they are bare hunks of rock and then moving on. ![]() In the first book of the trilogy the first humans were awoken and that started a forced breeding program to create new species. The aliens capture the remaining humans in the world and for hundreds of years kept them in stasis while they were studied and the earth was restored after the war. The alien world took over the Earth in the midst of a global war. It is set on earth, but an earth that an alien race has captured and rules. Butler is a good writer and creates intriguing worlds. Imago I think is a second tier Butler book. In November I am just finishing the first of the two, so I am not sure I will get to the second. One of my reading goals this year was to finished the final two fiction books that Octavia Butler wrote. Summary: The child of human and alien parents must find his own way. ![]()
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