Status Updates From Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)

Trigger Warnings: Attempted SA, violence

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I appreciate Butler's emphasis on freedom. And I recognize some interesting parallels with Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei. Still this is much more world building than my usual reading choices!

“That caused some of the most savage fights. An increasing number of bored, caged humans could not help finding destructive things to do.”

She was intended to live and reproduce, not to die. Experimental animal, parent to domestic animals? Was that what she was destined for? Forced artificial insemination. Surrogate motherhood? Fertility drugs and forced “donations” of eggs? Implantation of unrelated fertilized eggs. Removal of children from mothers at birth… Humans had done these things to captive breeders—all for a higher good, of course.