Octavia E. Butler Lilith's Brood / the Xenogenesis Trilogy : Dawn / Adulthood Rites / Imago

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For the first time in a deluxe, hardcover collector's edition, the landmark post-apocalyptic trilogy from the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award-winning author of Kindred, the Parable novels, and BloodchildFrom the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award-winning author of Kindred, the Parable novels, and Bloodchild, here in its spellbinding entirety is Octavia E. Butlers epic of human survival and transformation. Conceived against a backdrop of Reagan-era nuclear brinksmanship, Liliths Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogya classic of Afrofuturist speculative fictionoffers profound reflections on race, biology, colonialism, resistance, consent, sexuality, community, hybridity, technology, power, and the future of humankind. At the beginning of Dawn, Butlers heroine Lilith Iyapo is awakened in a white cell, after centuries of suspended animation. She is a survivor, as is gradually revealed, of a nuclear apocalypseand is now being healed, aboard an alien spaceship, by the terrifying and yet awe-inspiring Oankali. Searching the galaxy for new combinations of genes and DNA to acquire and trade, these advanced, uncanny beings are drawn to Liliths cancer, which will give them new powers: but should she, and the few of her kind that remain, agree to become one with their extraterrestrial saviors? Adulthood Rites tells the story of Liliths son, Akin, as he comes of age on a newly repopulated Earth. A constructpart-human, and part-Oankalihe is raised among human resisters, who live apart from Oankali technology. Negotiating the complexities of interspecies politics and his own hybrid identity, he emerges as a leader, forging a new path on Mars for the human/Oankali future.Imago follows another of Liliths hybrid progeny, Jodahs, on Akins now-established Mars colony. Raised as a male child, he discovers in his adolescence that he is becoming the first part-human ooloi, a member of the Oankalis shapeshifting, astonishingly powerful and perceptive third sexa discovery with intense personal and planetary consequences.Continuing the Library of Americas definitive edition of Butlers works, this volume offers authoritative texts of the novels, helpful notes, and a chronology of Butler's life and career.