Dawn

My first Octavia Butler and I can see what the fuss is about. The book is huge in Scope (Sapiens' survival and continuity) but very small in structure (the Alien ship) and Butler has kept part 1 essential and this lack of information about the aliens actually keeps it focused. All I know is that as I grow older and lived through the clusterfuckery that is people's response to COVID is that we simply do not deserve any Alien who actually wants to keep us alive, whatever their ulterior motive might be...