author: Octavia E. Butler
name: Becca
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1987
rating: 5
read at: 2013/06/16
date added: 2013/08/16
shelves: scifi, utopia-dystopia
review:
Wow. I usually hate hard sci-fi. But this was captivating -- Butler taps into ideas about what makes us humans, at a core, biological level. As a parent, the concept of what we desire for our offspring - the desire for sameness in our offspring competing with a desire for the greatness beyond what one could desire for oneself was very compelling.