Jesser, Nancy. "Blood, Genes and Gender in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Dawn." Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. Gale, 2008. Originally published in Extrapolation 43. 1, Spring 2002, pp.36–61. How the average Joe and human society may react to those new realities and how human mentalities could be more directly expressed by breeding in and out certain traits, body parts, etc. What the motivation of aliens might be, like for instance getting interesting new traits by dealing with all kinds of collected material from all around the universe. The dangers that come up with misusing that technology. Me alegra tanto haber podido conocer este libro y a su autora... Espero que el nombre de Octavia E. Butler se haga más conocido, porque se lo merece; se lo ha ganado. This started out awesome! Lilith wakes up from a long sleep in some kind of prison, and must cooperate with her grotesque alien captors, the Oankali, and figure out what they want from her. Turns out they want to repopulate the newly-rebuilt Earth with human alien hybrids! It had the stuff I personally love: gripping conversation between fascinating characters who are learning about each other. Despite their being no real action in the first half of Dawn, it was carried quite nicely by these conversations. Yes, I guess I am a giant nerd that way.

Miller, Jim. " Post-Apocalyptic Hoping: Octavia Butler's Dystopian/Utopian Vision." Science Fiction Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, 1998, pp.336–360.

When I read Octavia Butler’s Patternmaster, I grew impatient with the world building process, and that impatience diminished my pleasure. With Dawn world building is seamlessly intertwined with character development and plot progression. Octavia Butler was clearly in the zone when she wrote Dawn. Dawn has earned a place in my heart next to Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Fledgling novels. Espectacular el sexo a tres entre "oankali" y humanos y la dependencia y rechazo que genera en el trío.. Impresionante idea y muy bien plasmada sobre el papel. Muy original la forma de reproducción a tres bandas de los "oankali" y el concepto de género neutro y dominante dentro de la especie. También muy original lo que se nos cuenta de estos seres, sus capacidades fisiológicas, tecnológicas, genéticas, comunicativas, bioquímicas, sexuales.....muy interesante. This is quite a bit different from Kindred, focusing instead on the social, emotional, and physical changes associated with being awoken in captivity among some very strange and awesome alien-aliens. This isn't Star Trek. It's more of a Cthuhlu encounter without the overarching dread, modifying the humans through drugs and genetic changes and being told that the rest of the human race has wiped itself out with nukes. Gideon – Gideon was part of the Zionist Movement. He is a very religious person. He survived torture and imprisonment because he thought God was with him. He believed that he would make it alive if God was with him. It’s also about survival of the species, which we are all familiar with. We are trying so desperately to salvage some of the animals which are almost extinct and we do what we can to make them reproduce – in vitro fertilization, drugs for fertility and I guess some other medical technics which I am not aware of. But ever wonder if we were instead of them and all those things were done to us? How would we feel about that? And is it wrong? Does survival of a species justify the torment of few individuals? But is it even torment?

Smith, Stephanie A. "Morphing, Materialism, and the Marketing of Xenogenesis." Genders 18 (Winter 1993): 67–86. Espectacular el planteamiento, maravillosas muchas de las ideas que se plasman en el libro y muy originales, muy bueno el desarrollo de la trama, buenos los personajes. What Butler does with deft erudition and literary skill is build a sense of dramatic tension between Lilith and her alien savior / captors. Lilith is a difficult hero, reluctantly taking the lead in re-awakening her fellow humans to be a vanguard of a new civilization and possibly a new race.I normally have a cast iron stomach regardless of how brutal what I am reading is. For some reason I felt nauseous often when reading this, especially when I began to realize the extent of the relationship between Lilith and the aliens. Yet for all this, the descriptions Butler employs of human/Oloi mating are profoundly sensual and deeply poetic, especially in their focus on the experiences of each other’s sensations. It's also interesting that the Ooloi, since they are empathically linked to their partners are literally incapable of causing pain without hurting themselves, yet at the same time blatantly manipulate their partners chemically for their own ends; one occasion when the Ooloi cause couples to feel a sense of repellency when they try to touch each other (even as little as holding hands), without the Ooloi’s presence is a thought my lady and I found quite horrific.