Diverse Position Science Fiction

This week I read Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood. This novel’s main story element was
based around freedom. This theme is first seen when the book opens and the only perspective
given to the reader is that of Lilith, who is being held captive. She has moments when she
appears to almost, or perhaps does, loose her sanity because of the cage she has been put in.
She has very little freedom while in the cage. The rest of Lilith's story focuses on the freedoms
that the people do not have now that they are being controlled by the Oankali. Lilith, and the
other Humans, do feel a great deal of pleasure when they are with the aliens but this pleasure
seemingly makes the Humans lose control and they do not like that feeling either. The Humans
feel that they are given no choice in the matter.

I found the alien concept interesting. The main character, Lilith Iyapo, awakens to find that
most of the Earth has been destroyed by nuclear war, and the surviving humans have been kept
in suspended animation by an alien race called the Oankali. The Oankali are driven to travel the
universe in search of other intelligent species to breed with in order to share their genetic code,
altering both species. This story also touches with real life situations such as Lilith dealing
with cancer after losing her family to the same situation.