I liked this series a lot. Theme-wise, it's pretty similar to much of Octavia Butler's other work - what does it mean to be human? How do you build a community around yourself? etc. It's also very cohesive - it's very much one story told over three books, and none of them are duds. I think my favorite aspect of this series, as opposed to the Patternist series, or Earthseed, was how, by the end, the aliens seemed almost more human than the humans. They are certainly more aligned with many human ideals than the humans are - but at the same time, whenever you start to feel too comfortable with them there is a reminder that these beings are totally different from the rest of us. There's a lot to chew on here and I suspect that it will keep popping back into my awareness for a long time.
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haagen_daz rated The Dark Forest: 3 stars
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #2)
This is the second novel in the "Remembrance of Earth’s Past" near-future trilogy. Written by the China's multiple-award-winning science fiction …
haagen_daz rated Cosmicomics: 4 stars
haagen_daz rated A Fire Upon The Deep: 3 stars
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought, #1)
Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined …
haagen_daz rated The Ocean at the End of the Lane: 4 stars
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long …
haagen_daz rated Cosmos: 4 stars
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. It is the …
haagen_daz rated Anathem: 3 stars
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent …
haagen_daz rated Oryx and Crake: 2 stars
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as …
haagen_daz rated The Information: 4 stars
The Information by James Gleick
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in March …
haagen_daz rated 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus: 5 stars
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.Traditionally, Americans …
haagen_daz rated The Phantom Tollbooth: 5 stars
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got …
haagen_daz rated William Gibson's Neuromancer, Vol. 1: 4 stars
haagen_daz rated Carry On: 4 stars
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might …
haagen_daz rated The box: 4 stars
The box by Marc Levinson
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container …
haagen_daz reviewed Lilith's brood by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis, #Omnibus)
