Lilith's Brood (Paperback)

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Staff Reviews


My favorite book of all time. So phenomenally insightful into human desire, coercion, making impossible decisions in the name of survival. Stark, disturbing, strange, and wonderful, this story of alien colonization and the Black womxn they make their lover, captive, Judas’s goat will haunt you.

— Gretchen L Treu

Gretchen's Rec: Ruthlessly beautiful, disturbing, and haunting. This is my favorite series of all time--every time I re-read it I get something new out of it. — From Gretchen's SF/F/H picks

Description


The acclaimed trilogy that comprises Lilith's Brood is 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...

About the Author


OCTAVIA E. BUTLERwas a renowned writer who received a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. She was the author of several award-winning novels including Parable of the Sower, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the far future. Sales of her books have increased enormously since her death as the issues she addressed in her Afrofuturistic, feminist novels and short fiction have only become more relevant. She passed away on February 24, 2006.


Product Details
ISBN: 9780446676106
ISBN-10: 0446676101
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: June 1st, 2000
Pages: 752
Language: English