Octavia E. Butler

The acclaimed trilogy that comprises LILITH'S BROOD is multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best. Presented for the first time in one volume, with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph.D., LILITH'S BROOD is a profoundly evocative, sensual -- and disturbing -- epic of human transformation. Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected -- by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children. This is their story...

Lilith's Brood

A.L.L.

Excellent series that brings up a lot of philosophical questions about the concepts of free will, human nature, the definition of what is humane, and so much more. 

In each book of this trilogy I worried and half expected I wasn't going to like the characters or the direction of the story (the time lapses were often jarring), yet each volume drew me in and made me empathize and relate to characters I thought I had nothing in common with. 

The creativity of this series and the concepts it plays with are fascinating and delightful. I enjoyed volumes 1 and 2 much more than I expected. The perspectives of the construct characters was also much better done that I expected. 

There is bleakness and optimism, stark honesty and depth in all of Octavia Butler's writing, but it is especially apparent in this series, in which there is no black and white, no hero or villain, just questions and perspectives.

Mahasin S Ameen

I feel like I needed another book to go after Imago, but that could just be my desire for more Octavia Butler.

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The Rabid Geek

In an anthology of threee science fiction novels, all of humanity must share the world with uncanny, unimaginable alien creatures after war destroys Earth.

Joana Francener

Butler's acclaimed Xenogenesis trilogy about humanity's struggle for survival after nuclear apocalypse, and the alien race that could save the world-or destroy it The newest stage in human evolution begins in outer space. Survivors of a cataclysmic nuclear war awake to find themselves being studied by the Oankali, tentacle-covered galactic travelers whose benevolent appearance hides their surprising plan for the future of mankind. The Oankali arrive not just to save humanity, but to bond with it-crossbreeding to form a hybrid species that can survive in the place of its human forebears, who were so intent on self-destruction. Some people resist, forming pocket communities of purebred rebellion, but many realize they have no choice. The human species inevitably expands into something stranger, stronger, and undeniably alien. Butler's Lilith's Brood is both a thrilling, provocative meditation on the expansion of the human gene pool and an epic story of how it takes more than DNA to make someone human. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Octavia E. Butler including rare images from the author's estate.

Lilith's Brood

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