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Title: BUTLER'S WORK IS OVERWHELMING, MESMERIZING
Review: Octavia Butler is a strange sort of author; try to explain the gist of her work to a new reader and you come off sounding foolish:" There's this woman who's been abducted by aliens with tentacle faces, except now she's supposed to repopulate Earth with the few remaining humans left after we've blown everything up in WWIII..." It sounds like atypical SF schlock... but Butler's honest dialogue and her knack for staying four to five steps ahead of the reader insure an astounding reading experience. Inevitably, when I read a book of Butler's, I spend the first sitting getting acclimated to the plot... the next sitting is a frenzied stopless race to the finish... Four novels equal four sleepless nights. I'm VERY excited to hear that DAWN is the first book in a series and I look forward to reading the rest as soon as possible... for those who haven't tried the Patternist stuff, look that way.
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