Considering that there are so many differing interpretations of this theme, we have to conclude that it's more of a Rorschach test than a real commentary. There are many ways you can take this story: The aliens are white colonists, the aliens are our vision of god, the aliens are what's bad in people. The other level is the "read between the lines" theme. This causes humans to resist the aliens in useless struggles. Mankind reacts violently to things that are different. One is the surface level, where the alien viewpoint is that mankind's hierarchical structure and intelligence makes him self-destructive. There are two levels you can take this story. I understand that this is a cold war novel, but I think Butler completely missed the point about mankind's propensity to violence. Fatalistic views of humanity become tiresome and seem juvenile. "Awake" left such a bad taste in my mouth that I had to shelf this one. I give the author 4 stars for her imagination but only 2-2 1/2 stars for the storyline itself.
I was skimming so much at the end, that I skimmed right to the actual end of the series, and never even backtracked to see how the story ended (didn't much care by that time). It became the same thing over and over and over. I enjoyed the first book, but, as the story moved-on from there, I got bored with the repetitious descriptions of the highly charged emotions and healing characteristics of the aliens and the half-breeds. The second and third books cover the introduction of colonies back on Earth and the interactions between humans, the half humans and the aliens. The first book introduces the aliens and their spaceship, the reviving of the humans and the initial interaction between the two races. The author is very good at envisioning the alien race, laying out their history and describing all their complex characteristics.and following through with them (flawlessly) throughout the entire story. Some of the humans submit to the aliens and some resist. When they are revived, the survivors find that the price they have to pay for their lives (and their return to Earth) will be a sharing of their gene pool with their very advanced (and very ugly) alien benefactors (in the form of half-breed babies). The survivors are placed in deep freeze for 250 years until Earth has a chance to renew itself. Mankind and all large mammals are destined to become extinct as radiation spreads across the globe.Ī huge spaceship shows up in time to rescue some of the last Earth survivors. The story begins with the aftermath of a world-wide nuclear war on planet Earth. This is a compilation of a three book series.
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