We are witnesses to Lilith’s confusion, apprehension, and fear as she is forced to adapt in a world with creatures who don’t claim a planet as home but instead travel through the universe seeking other forms of life to trade with. Meet Lilith, a woman who wakes up in a strange white room with no doors or windows and later discovers she’s been abducted by an advanced alien race from an Earth dying at the hands of war. By the end of the third book, the story has progressed many decades and forces its reader to imagine a world dominated by others. Butler began her writing career because of a conviction to see herself in stories that weren’t oppressive or harmful.ĭAWN is the first book in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series, which starts when humans are no longer living on earth but instead are forced to make a life on a ship steered by aliens called the Oankali.
She was also the first science-fiction writer to receive the “Genius Grant,” better known as the MacArthur Fellowship. Octavia Butler was the first black American woman science-fiction writer to achieve international acclaim. To me, her literary imagination is filled with incomparable creative power. So I ventured on a new hunt to discover black science-fiction writers, and that is when I discovered Octavia Butler. I lived for the likes of Harry Potter, Underworld, and “Inception.” But I eventually noticed that none of the characters looked much like me.
When I left home for college, I started asking questions without the guilt of being punished by The Almighty and fell in love with stories that challenged my perception of reality. I wanted to read and watch everything she said would reserve me a one-way ticket to hell. I, on the other hand, felt limited and emotionally abused. In her eyes, she was protecting me from temptation, showing me the path, and working toward keeping me focused on it. Deeply rooted in her Christian faith, she forbade me to watch certain movies, read certain books, or participate in certain activities. I was a teenager when I first read Octavia Butler and had recently begun rebelling against my mother.
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