Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler? - Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey

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Following a devastating nuclear war, Lilith Iyapo awakens after 250 years of stasis to find herself surrounded by a group of aliens called the Oankali.

These highly evolved beings want to trade DNA by breeding with humans so that each species' genes can diversify and fortify the other.

The only alternative they offer is sterilization of the entire human race.

Should humanity take the leap into the biological unknown, or hold on to its identity and perish?

Questions like this haunt Octavia Butler's "Dawn,"the first in her trilogy "Lilith's Brood".

A visionary storyteller who upended science fiction, Butler built stunning worlds throughout her workand explored dilemmas that keep us awake at night.

Born in 1947, Butler grew up shy and introverted in Pasadena, California.

She dreamt up stories from an early age,

and was soon scribbling these scenarios on paper.

At twelve, she begged her mother for a typewriter after enduring a campy science fiction film called "Devil Girl From Mars".

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