She had not had subservience bred into her for untold generations.” (The Clan are not only small-c conservative, but echo the big-C kind, too, falling into rigid gender roles which Auel’s Homo sapiens eschew. Her antagonist unpacks his loathing of her: “The real problem was she was not Clan.
You’re an interesting mix.” In Octavia Butler’s Dawn, it’s that humanity is “intelligent hierarchical … It’s a terrestrial characteristic.” Aliens are more than a mirror, more than a foil they’re sentient and can tell us what they see.Īuel’s Neanderthals see Ayla’s strange newness, too. Writers love to have aliens tell humans how they see them: In Carl Sagan’s Contact, the alien says, “Love is very important.
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