Molly Wallace, writing in her essay, ???Reading Octavia Butler???s Xenogenesis After Seattle,??? asks, ???Do the new hybrid beings like Akin sound the death knell of humanity, or do they merely represent humanity???s next evolutionary phase???? Indeed, some theorists, such as Donna Haraway, have seen in Butler???s writing a depiction of the coming ???cyborg,??? the interweaving of humanity with ma