Tag: science fiction

For our first biopunk book club, ChiTownBiologists read the multi-faceted, thought-provoking book Dawn by Octavia Butler. In Dawn, humans have been decimated by global war and are “rescued” by a tentacle-y alien species called the Oankali–with a catch. The Oankali will help rehabilitate and rebuild humanity if they interbreed with them in a complex form…