Octavia Butler’s Dawn was provided a fresh look on alien abduction. In fact in the beginning I thought the CIA or FBI took the main character, Lilith. They kept her in isolation, keeping her unconscious for years, performing surgical operations on her, and sporadically waking her up to question her.
After a few pages of isolation, her captor’s reveal themselves to her, and it turns out they have been aliens all along. The alien looks like some sort of weird squid/amphibious creature that has tentacles for eyes, nose, and ears. They call themselves, ‘Traders’ and have been giving her surgery to get rid of cancer that has been growing inside of her. They tell her that they wanted the cancer cells for their own use, which I found to be odd.
Jdahya is the name of the alien who corresponds with Lilith. He brings her out of her isolation chamber and shows her the ship they have been living in. It is huge, and apparently the space ship is a living being that actual “loves” the Traders, it trades services with the them, allowing them to live on it. In return, they pilot it.
For some reason I imagined a lot of vibrant and cool colors. A lot of purples, greens and blues.
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