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Posted on May 1, 2006May 21, 2015 by Carl Brandon Society

Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy: A Biologist’s Response

A talk on Octavia Butler’s work, given by biologist and science fiction writer Joan Slonczewski at the 2000 conference of the Science Fiction Research Association.

“Unlike the vast majority of alien abduction tales, Dawn actually presents a biologically plausible explanation for why the Oankali need to interbreed with humans.”

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