lunes, 8 de enero de 2024

Dawn [Xenogenesis #1] - Octavia E Butler

 (Lilith's Brood, 1)

Butler, Octavia - Xenogenesis 1 - Dawn (Dawn)
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"It's wrong to assume that I must be a sex you're familiar with," it said, "but as it
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Butler, Octavia - Xenogenesis 1 - Dawn (Dawn)
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"What's the second characteristic?" "You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic.
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Butler, Octavia - Xenogenesis 1 - Dawn (Dawn)
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Experimental animal, parent to domestic animals? Or . . . nearly extinct animal, part of a captive breeding program? Human biologists had done that before the war-used a few captive members of an endangered animal species to breed more for the wild population.
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Butler, Octavia - Xenogenesis 1 - Dawn (Dawn)
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The room was a scene of quiet, strangely gentle chaos.
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Butler, Octavia - Xenogenesis 1 - Dawn (Dawn)
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"Look at things from Curt's point of view," Gabriel said. "He's not in control even of what his own body does and feels. He's taken like a woman and.. . . No, don't explain!" He held up his hand to stop her from interrupting. "He knows the ooloi aren't male. He knows all the sex that goes on is in his head. It doesn't matter. It doesn't fucking matter! Someone else is
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Butler, Octavia - Xenogenesis 1 - Dawn (Dawn)
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An ooloi needed a male and female pair to be able to play its part in reproduction, but it neither needed nor wanted two-way contact between that male and female. Oankali males and females never touched each other sexually. That worked fine for them. It could not possibly work for human beings.
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Butler, Octavia - Xenogenesis 1 - Dawn (Dawn)
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She drew a deep breath, accepted the familiar loop of sensory arm around her neck.

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