This episode, we enter the compelling world of Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn, the first in her Xenogenesis series.

That’s right, we’re going full sci-fi. Post-apocalypse, aliens, tentacles and even…interspecies orgies?This little novel sends us down a rabbit hole of slavery, feminism, and the ethics of alien meddling.

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