Category Archives: Group 4

“When the fate of the world hangs in the balance, you want to keep an eye on anyone whose career-defining moment involves consorting with the enemy.” (page 187) I began to see a theme of trust emerging in the novel … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“Heaven was not intended for the casual visitor; any paradise in which the flesh-constrained would feel at home would have been intolerably pedestrian to the disembodied souls who lived there.” I fell in love with this quote near the beginning of the second section of Blindsight.  I almost automatically love any quote having any sort Continue reading →

Saturday, November 05, 2311 Today four raiders from another Human-resister village brought a Human-born male construct child into Phoenix.  Damek, Galt, Iriarte, and Kaliq were their names.  They fuckin’ stank, and no one trusted them from the get-go.  Akin, the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Up until Adulthood Rites, Lilith’s Brood has been a story of the human race gradually being deprived of its “humanness.” While the Oankali may be friendly imperialists who want to have hot sexy times with the humans – they are still imperialists nonetheless. Imperialism is a force that deprives another being of its agency and […] Continue reading →

Day 232 on Earth Our village of Phoenix received visitors today; large men who brought with them a stench almost unbearable to be near. Near their feet, a baby stumbled along, bearing a hopeless, emotionless expression on its face. My … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Some sort of journal: I don’t like it. It’s not right. They’re the ones who did this to us. The ones who take away our last vestiges of freedom. Why should we ever try to bargain with them? Those monsters won’t ever change us back. They won’t fix us. They’ve taken something from us that Continue reading →

Tape 7, November 10. Where was I? What’s most difficult for me is trying to decide what to tell you and what not to. But I guess I have a while yet before you’re old enough to understand these tapes. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

To my beloved Akin, I am excited to say that with your birth comes the rebirth of the entire human race. You are, as I’m sure you will perceive very soon, the first male child born to a human mother since we were “saved” by the Oankali. As with your sisters I am sure you […] Continue reading →

Ok…I’m going to preface this with the fact that I realize this may seem a little corny, but I’m going to present the case anyway because I feel it is worthy of attention.  Nay, a blog post!  Lilith is “the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

At the begging of Dawn we are introduced to Lilith a woman who has been living in confinement for what seems like many years. She hasn’t been in control of anything besides her own sanity and will to live. Her life seems alien to us, and we soon learn that it was indeed aliens who […] Continue reading →