Dawn is the first book in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy, and like much of Butler’s work I’m going to go through them very slowly, both to savor them and let them filter through my head. Butler does not write easy science fiction, the contents of her novels challenge the reader and the ideas in them linger long after the last page is turned. Dawn starts with the awakening of Lilith Iyapo.  Earth has just gone through a nuclear war and Lilith remembers the small, pitiful struggles […]