Since a nuclear war decimated the human population, the remaining humans began to rebuild their future by interbreeding with an alien race -- the Oankali -- who saved them from near-certain extinction. The Oankalis' greatest skill lies in the species' ability to constantly adapt and evolve, a process that is guided by their third sex, the ooloi, who are able to read and mutate genetic code.
Now, for the first time in the humans' relationship with the Oankali, a human mother has given birth to an ooloi child: Jodahs. Throughout his childhood, Jodahs seemed to be a male human-alien hybrid. But when he reaches adolescence, Jodahs develops the ooloi abilities to shapeshift, manipulate DNA, cure and create disease, and more. Frightened and isolated, Jodahs must either come to terms with this new identity, learn to control new powers, and unite what's left of humankind -- or become the threat to their survival.
作者简介
奥克塔维亚·E·巴特勒 (Octavia E. Butler) 是一位有名作家,因其作品荣获麦克阿瑟“天才”奖和笔会西斯特终身成就奖。 她是多部获奖小说的作者,其中包括《纽约时报》年度出名图书《播种者的寓言》,并因其简洁的散文、强有力的主角以及对遥远过去的故事的社会观察而受到赞誉。 到遥远的未来。 自从她去世以来,她的书籍销量大幅增加,因为她在非洲未来主义、女权主义小说和短篇小说中解决的问题变得更加重要。 她于2006年2月24日去世。
Octavia E. Butler was a renowned writer who received a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. She was the author of several award-winning novels including Parable of the Sower, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the far future. Sales of her books have increased enormously since her death as the issues she addressed in her Afrofuturistic, feminist novels and short fiction have only become more relevant. She passed away on February 24, 2006.
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