I have read nearly all of Ms Butler's works and enjoyed them all. While some will dither about which of Ms Butler's novels are her `greatest,' few will argue that this series is superb. Ms Butler skills are so great that this change in perspective goes so slowly that the reader is largely unaware until it has been accomplished.
She gradually takes the reader from the perspective of a `human,' specifically an Earthling who encounters an alien race to the perspective of the `alien,' specifically the descendent of interbreeding between humans and aliens who is now the `human' and sees Earthlings as the aliens. In this series Ms Butler took on sexuality and the nature of `humanity' in a startling new way. I am posting this review on each of the Xenogenesis Trilogy (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago) sites as well as the volume where they are collected `Lilith's Brood.' All are excellent and recommended. I think she is one of the few SciFi writers to have received this recognition. She won both Hugo and Nebula Awards several times and the MacArthur Foundation `Genius' Award in 1995. She lived as a hermit in the middle of a major city and created a body of work which stands with the very best. Ms Butler was dyslexic,, above average in height, African American, and a genius. Her themes were race, sexuality, and the nature of `reality.' In fact her books do tackle some of the big themes of SciFi, but are not in the `hard science' genre.
She once said that she didn't really write `Science Fiction' as such because she did know much about science.
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