By Octavia E. Butler

Be aware of Thy Enemy

They fled from an Earth ravaged via plague and violence, looking to satisfy their holy mission--to find a new domestic for humanity. yet rather than touchdown in a pace-filled paradise, Earth's Missionaries locate themselves stuck among warring civilizations--the Garkohn and Tehkohn. And just one of the folks from Earth, a tender woman and "converted" Missionary named Alanna, has the right kind survival education to determine during the lies in their Garkohn "hosts," who expand the hand of friendship to the people basically to enslave them. Alanna on my own can comprehend the need of turning into one with the Tehkohn "enemy." And, might be, she will be able to have the opportunity to free up the Missionaries from the lethal bondage into which they've got complacently fallen. but whether she succeeds, will Alanna simply be saving them for a nonetheless extra inescapable doom...?

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He spun around in a circle of fury, lashing out with both fists. "MOTHERFUCKER! We almost bought it! " Barris, standing visible by the side of the freeway with all its heavy traffic whizzing by, got out a little horn snuffbox of death tabs and took several. He passed the snuffbox to Luckman, who took a few, then passed it to Arctor. "Maybe that's what's fucking us up," Arctor said, declining irritably. " "Dope can't screw up an accelerator linkage and carb-idle adjustment," Barris said, still holding the snuffbox out to Arctor.

He'll flash on that and rap at us for days. Somebody got in who was hip to his device and cleverly unplugged it. So, he decided, if they find it unplugged I hope they think to plug it in, and not only that, make it run right. In fact, what they really should do is test out his whole detection system, run it through its cycle as thoroughly as they do their own, be absolutely certain it functions perfectly, and then wind it back to a blank state, a tablet on which nothing is inscribed but on which something would for sure be had anyone--themselves, for example--entered the house.

They may have left some. And he thought, Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then, briefly. Under very specialized conditions, such as today. Next thing, Barris will be reasoning that I lured everyone out of the house deliberately to permit secret intruders to accomplish their thing here. And later on he will discern why and who and everything else, and in fact maybe he already has. Had a while ago, in fact; long-enough ago to initiate sabotage and destruct actions on the cephscope, car, and God knows what else.

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