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Child of two species, but part of neither, a new being must find his way.
Human and Oankali have been mating since the aliens first came to Earth to rescue the few survivors of an annihilating nuclear war. The Oankali began a massive breeding project, guided by the ooloi, a sexless subspecies capable of manipulating DNA, in the hope of eventually creating a perfect starfaring race. Jodahs is supposed to be just another hybrid of human and Oankali, but as he begins his transformation to adulthood he finds himself becoming ooloi - the first ever born to a human mother.
As his body changes, Jodahs develops the ability to shapeshift, manipulate matter, and cure or create disease at will. If this frightened young man is able to master his new identity, Jodahs could prove the savior of what’s left of mankind. Or, if he is not careful, he could become a plague that will destroy this new race once and for all.
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- Lynnette
- 10-16-16
Wow!
In all honesty, I struggled through the first few chapters of this book. But having listened to the first two books of the trilogy, I continued. Boy, was I glad that I did!
Once it got going it carried me away just like the others had. It was the perfect ending to the series.
I highly recommend this book! I would however, highly recommend that the trilogy be read in order.
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- Carolina
- 01-15-15
What an amazing trilogy!
Originally posted at: A Girl That Likes Books
First impression
What an amazing trilogy. I am so glad this was my first contact with the work of Octavia E. Butler, because I completely loved every book and the series as a whole. In this book we encounter Jodahs, another son of Lilith and her Oankali family; a construct. For the first time, a construct that is turning into an ooloi, the first one to come from human parents. Once again, Butler explores how we deal with the unknown and the changes this brings to everyone including yourself.
Final thoughts
I think I have never encountered and author that makes me question what identity really is like Octavia E. Butler with this series. Not only to what a human is, but all those little labels that we gather through our lives: male, female, foreign, normal, etc. This third book is off course not exception, and it comes in the form of a coming-of-age for the main character, Jodhas, who as it turns out, won't be male or female, since the ooloi are neither. First we see its own struggle it has accepting what he is becoming and at the same trying to explain to others so they will not only understand this new step in the Oankali-Human relationship but also so they will accept it and hopefully embrace it.
Once again, as in the rest of the series, the subject of xenophobia is discussed at large, except that in this book, is not just humans who are afraid, the Oankali don't know what to do with Jodhas, and fear what its presence might mean. I loved that she (Butler) shows so beautifully how the unknown is always scary, independent of our background, but that at the same time, we don't need to be afraid. Acceptance is always present in this trilogy, sometimes reluctantly, but always there.
Jodhas has this ability to modify its appearance to make whoever is around more comfortable, to adapt to others and I found this extremely interesting, as it cannot help but do it, most of the time it wouldn't realize this was happening until someone else pointed this out. This is something so common in relationships, we change a bit, not to much that we lose ourselves, but enough to reflect our new situation. The problem of changing so much that our identity is lost is also addressed, but I don't want to discuss it too much, as I fear it might give some spoilers.
I particularly enjoyed the feeling of family portrayed in the book. While sometimes it would seem like a more complicated structure, at the end it is always a net of support, with all of the members being woven together by love, expectations and belonging.
The other thing that the trilogy addresses in an impressive way is sexuality, and what it might mean to a person (or to an Oankali). What it might mean to feel and identify as male, female, both or neither and how others that might be more accustomed to a more black-and-white perspective would respond to this perspective being challenged. I can only say that Octavia E. Butler was a genius being able to put herself in the skin of so many issues and most importantly being able to transmit these feelings in her writing.
I would recommend this series to anyone seeking a brilliant sci-fi series with a lot of social subtext.
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- ron myrick
- 01-25-20
Ron Myrick
This series is awesome. I recently heard they are being made into a series. Where will air or stream I don’t know. I hope they do justice to the amazing world that Octavia has created. I wish I had discovered her before her passing. I love all of her works.
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- Kindle Customer
- 09-10-19
a very long description of loneliness.
They are lonely. They want mates. and children. badly. That is all. That is pretty much the whole story.
They do not seem to be the least bit picky. The first human to cross the construct's path will do. Which is crazy. and predatory. and also boring.
Mating seems such a desperate imperative in the last book of the series that a description of this "hunger" is on every single page. or so I assume. (I only listened to the audio version). Regardless, It got old fast. I wanted the story to progress instead of hearing again how "hungry" the constructs were. The excessive descriptions really swallowed the story.
I liked the first book so much that I bought the next two halfway in. It was a great concept. I was loving it for a while, but in the end, It fizzled out.
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- Shawna
- 02-27-14
Butler's Trilogy Captures You Until the End
What made the experience of listening to Imago the most enjoyable?
The whole series had this ominous but riveting tone.
What did you like best about this story?
That is a loaded question. Throughout the series I kept picturing the Oankali and Ooloi tentacles and the variations of them.
What three words best describe Barrett Aldrich’s performance?
Monotone but effective.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The ending.
Any additional comments?
In most stories that talk about the end of the human civilization, one tends to root for resurgence of the human race. Honestly towards the end of this series, I felt torn. The fact that Butler outlines the reasons why Oankali think we won't survive on our own may be spot on.
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- natalja
- 12-08-15
Fascinating Tale
Butler wows us again with this incredibly timely epic into the depths of the human condition. With our current progress in human genetics, this tale gives narrative to a strange new realm in which many things are changing for our understanding of how out bodies and minds work. I enjoyed every bend of the journey. Thank you Ms. Butler.
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- Lia
- 06-17-16
Good Ending to The Trilogy
This trilogy frames two major issues. The first is the self destructive nature of human life, and the second is our evolving relationship with our own bodies, especially issues surrounding gender. Butler gives us an earth already destroyed by humans in a final great war that leaves only a few survivors tottering on the brink of extinction. How are they to survive when the seeds of self-destruction are encoded in their own DNA? Their salvation comes from above in the form of aliens who collect and preserve humanity's remnants much as we preserve endangered species. Like us, they reintroduce humans into their former habitat, but in s doing so they intermix their own DNA with ours and create a new species with three different genders which all must come together nine order to reproduce. The story is really one of the seduction of human beings onto an evolutionary path that has a very different kind of future than we usually imagine for ourselves. Butler was a great writer, and the first book bowled me over. The second book challenged me to re-imagine he human condition, and the third swept me away into a very different vision of what we might become. Listeners who are looking for science fiction at its best, imaginative, challenging, and complex will love this trilogy and look for more of Octavia Butler's superb stories of about who we are and what we might become.
Aldrich Barrett was outstanding with the delivery of the story
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-16-19
eck
the narrator was great, but the story was... not to my taste. to be fair, I've had this issue since the first book, but... wanted to see what would happen, and was disappointed...
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- Ralene Padilla
- 12-11-19
phenomenal and unexpected
the whole concept of benevolent aliens is something I honestly never considered and Octavia's understanding of human behavior in face of something and contradictory it's definitely everything Octavia Butler and you dont have to black enjoy it!
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- Donald C. Lawson III
- 03-01-16
Pretty Good Wrap-up
I was unable to develop an imersion of emotions to match those I felt from the first two books. Still, I really enjoyed the overall concepts. Only one "why didn't the aliens do..." which is rare in sci-fi.
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- an italian in london
- 08-25-15
One book too much but still a recommended read
Is there anything you would change about this book?
I liked the Xenogenesis saga but, with all due respect for a great writer such as Octavia E. Butler, I found that overall the story could have been told in 2 books.
I found certain parts a bit boring and that they did not really add to the experience.
Overall Xenogenesis is a great story and it's an absolute must for anyone who likes this type of sci-fi (sociological, anthropological with the theme of racism in the background.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Imago?
To learn of the Oankali and to discover how had the author imagined this alien species.
Which scene did you most enjoy?
Anything that had to do with life on the spaceship
If this book were a film would you go see it?
absolutely and not just once
Any additional comments?
Read it, listen to it despite my critique above.
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- ian
- 08-06-20
Coma inducing bore-fest. Irritatingly delivered.
Coma inducing bore-fest. Irritatingly delivered. Listening to this narrator my experience became a chore. Struggled to finish.
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- tamsin
- 05-11-21
meh
Definitely could have left it at the last book. I wish it could have been about the Mars colony to be honest
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- Ola Agbaimoni
- 03-23-21
Excellent
I really enjoyed the whole series. A must read for Si-fi fans. Octavia is a genius and her imagined world is completely believable. She Demonstrates an in-depth understanding the human psychology .. The aliens are so much more loveable.
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- Heisenberg
- 11-15-19
Weakest of the trilogy
Overall I have enjoyed this trilogy, and Octavia Butler is a new author to me (and I will be reading more from her), however I found this to be the weakest of the trilogy. The first two books had a much stronger internal structure driving them forwards. I lost interest by the end of this, there was just too little plot, though I did listen to the end. Good narration.
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- Strayficshion
- 10-19-19
Sci-fi fantasy of rescue - or is it genocide?
These books, following the lives of two, and then three, kinds of peoples, were written in the 1980s and as such could have dated dreadfully had they relied on the usual sci-fi gadgetry and paraphernalia. But they don't, they rely on humans, humanity, and the strangeness of aliens whose motivations are far removed from human understanding and whose relationship with biological entities is everything.
This is a sci-fi fantasy trilogy spanning an earthbound disaster through suspended lives, challenged notions of freedom and choice, benevolence and control, assistance and absorption. There are parallels with racism, fierce independence of identity morphing into rejection of difference; all the while centering on individual relationships and what the monumental shifts in perception of each other's powers and ways of thinking of themselves might mean for the future.
There are skirmishes but no battles. There are deaths but no gratuitous violence. There is sex but 'not as we know it'. And there is love, but again so uniquely manifested as to need re-learning.
Have the humans been saved from themselves, or are they willing victims of absorption by a superior alien species in a process of gentle genocide? I never quite decided.
Towards the end, came a short piece of dialogue which I wish had been the last line of the last page because it seems to say almost everything about this series of stories: 'Plant a town, prepare a place, people will come.'
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- Sky
- 01-25-19
A Beautiful Performance
I have just finished this trilogy, aside from it being a stunningly descriptive and scientifically loyal novel. What I appreciate most about this rendition is the flawless narration, attention characters personality and voice really makes listening to this a joy. The narrator has a real talent for making the characters come alive - 12/10
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- Kathy
- 08-14-22
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The third and final Xenogenesis book. This time it tells the story of Jodahs, Lilith's first Ooloi child and its growth into its role including mates and metamorphosis.
- It was fascinating learning about the world Butler has created through Ooloi eyes and how different Jodahs saw things from Lilith and Akin.
- I liked how the narrative handles the humans involved and how the majority of them were not white or English speaking. As with most of the books, they are diverse and provoke thought about human power structures.
- Though the series ended well, I would have liked to have spent more time in the final setting and learn what was to happen there. I wish Butler had written more in this series as I have loved learning about the Oankali and this new dystopian world.
A very enjoyable and rewarding series, especially for those who enjoy alien encounters with humans, visions of a future with both alien and human people living together and the problems encountered from the different needs of different beings.
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- Tudor
- 06-27-22
A great book like all the trilogy.
All the books in the threlogy raises questions of ethics and philosophy but give no answers since there are none. Is an exploration into the psichilogy of distructive human behavior and choises that...
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- Anonymous User
- 05-11-22
Fascinating reflexions on the human nature
I love the world's and premises of the trilogy. Imago takes us through the challenges, concerns, desires and feelings of a contruct human growing into adulthood. I love being taken into the worlds beautifully imagined by Olivia Butler.
What fascinates me more about the book is the inevitable questioning of my own nature regarding the "human contradiction" and the comparisons with how other humans in the story feel and act.
I definitely recommend this book and firmly believe I will now read / hear all I can get my hands on by this author.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-11-22
Great story
Absolutely loved the 3 books in this trilogy I did however prefer the first 2 just a fraction more,
not sure if its my 2022 brain and the use of the term pleasure over and over again but that mixed in with all the alien seduction was a LOT to take in haha, I felt myself cringe now and then but then Octavia does describe things in so much detail I could basically see tentacles everywhere, it was still a great story and I really loved the final tale in this generation journey,
also this narrator is so on point, round if applause for the absolutely fantastic character list she has inside her, bravo !!!
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