Loads of food for thoughts beside the usual "omg she's such an amazing writer!".

Don't know about Butler politics, but it's pretty obvious she's anti-authoritarian and I love how, through the Oankali, we learn that one of the main flaw of humankind it' around their hierarchical structure.

But, then, she also pushes a lot on this "human nature" which is inherently bad somehow and that really fucks up any socio-political thought. Like, do they kill each other because of hierarchy and shit or just because that's the way they are so nothing really can be done to save them.

And speaking of nature, yeah, due to the story itself, there's loads of talks about reproduction and sex and I know I wasn't going to read a gender-bending book, but she just cling so much to the binary that I cannot even see illusion of feminism?

Compare the protagonist of the first two books.

First one, Lilith, woman. She's used throughout the whole story and in the end she also get an unrequested pregnancy Virgin Mary style which never gets addressed for real.

Second one, Akin, man. He literally goes against millennial old "traditions" of his race by setting up a Human-only colony on Mars despite having basically no allies in the process.

So, yeah, doubts. It would be nice to discuss them with whoever would like to. :)