Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)

English language

Published Dec. 26, 1997

ISBN:
978-0-446-60363-8
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reviewed Imago by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis, #3)

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Tak trosku "povinny" dokonceni trilogie. Zacatek drhl a moc me neba, pak uz to slo slusne. Samostatne asi nejslabsi kousek. Skoncilo to vsechno stastne az slza ukapla. V kazdym pripade horkej podtext zustava a k zamysleni je tam vic veci nejen ohledne lidstvi jako takovyho.

Lovesick tentacled freak seeks diseased nuclear mutants for serious polyamorous relationship

4 stars

For me, a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy, continuing to push the themes of race, gender, nuclear armageddon, sex and biology. The alien-human hybrid Jodahs is the narrator. It - for that is its pronoun - is another Christ figure, like Akin in the previous novel. But this time the name suggests Judas, and there is frequently a suggestion that a putative mediator could turn out to be a betrayer.

One thing I like about Butler is how she goes to extremes. In this case the most sexually desirable creatures left on planet earth are a community of nuclear mutants afflicted with debilitating degenerative conditions and horrible skin diseases. Bow-chicka-wow-wow!

In her other novels (e.g. the Patternist series) she portrays the worst traits of human debauchery and murder, just to make it hard to pick a side - hegemonising aliens or violent human psycho-killers. Here I found I had sympathy …

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