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One of the first novels dealing with the idea of how gender, love and procreation may evolve under the influence of interspecies, in this case, alien relationships.

Octavia E Butler is a unique writer, because she was both one of the first female black Sci-Fi writers and also dealt with the, at this time and strangely even today, controversial ideas of what might happen if aliens want to have some sexy time with humans.

We have already a bunch of varieties with the human genders and gender identities and mixing it up with more genders, the option to change gender and to manipulate the results of sexual reproduction both by technology and by free will opens up many plot devices.

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.

It could be less dramatic when we would never find aliens or get visited by them and all of those new relational models would have to be developed on earth by using genetic engineering and good, old fashioned, mad mixing of different species. That´s the reason why I hope that we won´t have to play with this potential doomsday device alone in the endless, cold dark of space without the help of an experienced tutor of undescribable gender and genitalia.

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