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• hanche · Aug 21, 2019 · Recommends

  I was going to recommend Octavia E. Butler, but I see she is already on the list. The whole Xenogenesis trilogy is good, not just Dawn (first in the series). Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents likewise. And Connie Willis' To say nothing of the dog is hilarious! It will brighten anyone's day. I'll just have to starting…

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• chiph · Jul 27, 2016 · Recommends

  Octavia E. Butler was an amazing author, and it never failed for her books to be way-out-there. Sometimes creepily so: https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Xenogenesis-Trilogy-Book-1-ebook...

• macawfish · Mar 6, 2017 · Recommends

  …Jr. The Phenomenon of Science: A Cybernetic Approach to Human Evolution by Valentin Turchin Paul's 1st letter to the Corinthians History, Guilt & Habit by Owen Barfield The Prophet by Khalil Gibran Dawn by Octavia Butler Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson You Are Here by Thich Nhat Hanh The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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• NelsonMinar · Nov 26, 2022 · Recommends

  …by popularity is a good start: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/29535.Octavia_E_Butler Kindred is excellent and the most popular for good reason. But it as much American history as it is sci-fi. Dawn is my favorite of hers and very sci-fi. Parable of the Sower is also an excellent place to start, more of a post-apocalyptic story.

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• davedx · Dec 26, 2025 · Recommends

  …suggestions, and compiled my own "humanity is fucked" themed reading list, which included: * Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey * The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton * Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood * Dawn by Octavia Butler I then diverged from this list (I have more) to re-read (though it's not such a great divergence): * If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi Other books I enjoyed reading this…

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• joe_the_user · Jun 17, 2022 · Mentions

  In Dawn, part of the Xenogenesis trilogy, Octavia Butler describes an earth woman taken to an alien "spacecraft" orbiting earth. All of the devices on the craft activated by chemicals the aliens can choose to…

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