Dawn
C. S. Lewis's fifth Narnia novel, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, sends Lucy and Edmund Pevensie back to Narnia along with their insufferable cousin Eustace Scrubb when a painting of a ship at sea begins, in the middle of an English bedroom, to swell with real wind and salt water. They wash up on the deck of the Dawn Treader, a Narnian galleon captained by the now grown King Caspian, who is sailing east to find seven lost lords his uncle had banished. The voyage takes them past slave traders, dragons, an island where dreams come true, the Dark Island, the table of Aslan at the world's end, and finally the still water at the edge of creation. Lewis writes some of his loveliest set pieces here, Reepicheep the warrior mouse, Eustace's redemption, and Aslan's quiet promise that the children must find him under another name in their own world.
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What you might want to know about Dawn
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
Two hundred and fifty years after a nuclear war on Earth, Lilith Iyapo wakes on an alien ship. The Oankali have saved a few thousand humans, and want to repopulate Earth, with one substantial condition. First in Xenogenesis.
Yes. Dawn (1987) is the first book in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy, also known as Lilith's Brood. It is followed by Adulthood Rites and Imago.
Dawn is adult science fiction and contains depictions of sexuality, alien biology, and difficult themes around consent and species survival. It is appropriate for mature high-school readers and up rather than middle-grade.
Dawn was written by C. S. Lewis, published in 1987 by Rayo.
Dawn is 224 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Dawn takes most readers 3 to 5 hours to finish.
Dawn is a standalone novel by C. S. Lewis, not part of a series.
Dawn is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.