Lilith's Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia E. ButlerLike this list

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• Dawn

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  Book 1, published 1987. Opens with Butler’s heroine Lilith Iyapo in a bare white cell, waking after centuries of suspended animation. A survivor of nuclear apocalypse, she is being healed aboard an alien spaceship by the grotesque yet apparently…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Adulthood Rites

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Book 2, published 1988. Tells the story of Lilith’s son Akin as he comes of age on a newly repopulated Earth. A “construct”—part human and part Oankali—he is taken from Lilith as a child and raised among human “resisters,” insurgents who reject…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Imago

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  Book 3, published 1989. On a slowly regenerating Earth, nature finds a way: some humans, it turns out, remain fertile. Even more surprisingly, for humankind and Oankali alike, Lilith’s son Jodahs emerges from puberty as the first part-human ooloi, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dawn

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  Book 1, published 1987. Opens with Butler’s heroine Lilith Iyapo in a bare white cell, waking after centuries of suspended animation. A survivor of nuclear apocalypse, she is being healed aboard an alien spaceship by the grotesque yet apparently…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lilith's Brood

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  This edition collects all three Xenogenesis novels: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago.

• Lilith's Brood

  Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  Book 2, published 1988. Tells the story of Lilith’s son Akin as he comes of age on a newly repopulated Earth. A “construct”—part human and part Oankali—he is taken from Lilith as a child and raised among human “resisters,” insurgents who reject…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dawn

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  Book 1, published 1987. Opens with Butler’s heroine Lilith Iyapo in a bare white cell, waking after centuries of suspended animation. A survivor of nuclear apocalypse, she is being healed aboard an alien spaceship by the grotesque yet apparently…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Adulthood Rites

  Xenogenesis

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Book 2, published 1988. Tells the story of Lilith’s son Akin as he comes of age on a newly repopulated Earth. A “construct”—part human and part Oankali—he is taken from Lilith as a child and raised among human “resisters,” insurgents who reject…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Imago

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  Book 3, published 1989. On a slowly regenerating Earth, nature finds a way: some humans, it turns out, remain fertile. Even more surprisingly, for humankind and Oankali alike, Lilith’s son Jodahs emerges from puberty as the first part-human ooloi, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dawn

  Butler, Octavia E.,

  Add Dawn to your for later shelf

  Book 1, published 1987. Opens with Butler’s heroine Lilith Iyapo in a bare white cell, waking after centuries of suspended animation. A survivor of nuclear apocalypse, she is being healed aboard an alien spaceship by the grotesque yet apparently…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Adulthood Rites

  Butler, Octavia E.,

  Add Adulthood Rites to your for later shelf

  Book 2, published 1988. Tells the story of Lilith’s son Akin as he comes of age on a newly repopulated Earth. A “construct”—part human and part Oankali—he is taken from Lilith as a child and raised among human “resisters,” insurgents who reject…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Imago

  Butler, Octavia E.

  Add Imago to your for later shelf

  Book 3, published 1989. On a slowly regenerating Earth, nature finds a way: some humans, it turns out, remain fertile. Even more surprisingly, for humankind and Oankali alike, Lilith’s son Jodahs emerges from puberty as the first part-human ooloi, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Further Reading: The Patternist Series

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  The Patternist series (also known as the Patternmaster series or Seed to Harvest) is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Further Reading: Octavia E. Butler's Standalone Writings

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  An original and eerily prophetic writer, Octavia E. Butler used the conventions of science fiction to explore the dangerous legacy of racism in America in harrowingly personal terms. She broke new ground with books that featured complex Black female…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Further Reading: Earthseed

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  While technically the first two books in an unfinished series, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents complement each other and read very well as a duology. Parable of the Sower is the winner of multiple awards and has been adapted into an…Read moreRead more of this annotation