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Name: Octavia E. Butler: Lilith's Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy (Loa #393): Dawn / Adulthood Rites / Imago
Brand: Library of America
SKU: 9781598538182
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Contributors:

Octavia E. Butler, Imani Perry (Editor)

Publisher:

Library of America

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Fiction

Book Subcategory:

Science Fiction, African American & Black

Book Topic:

Genetic Engineering, Women

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Release Date:

10/14/2025

ISBN 13:

9781598538182

Weight:

1.55 lbs

Size:

8.00 x 5.50 x 1.40 inches

Pages:

662

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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 "Bloodchild"

From the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award-winning author of Kindred, the Parable novels, and "Bloodchild," here in its spellbinding entirety is Octavia E. Butler's epic of human survival and transformation. Conceived against a backdrop of Reagan-era nuclear brinksmanship, Lilith's Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy--a classic of Afrofuturist speculative fiction--offers profound reflections on race, biology, colonialism, resistance, consent, sexuality, community, hybridity, technology, power, and the future of humankind.

At the beginning of Dawn, Butler's 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 apocalypse--and 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 Lilith's 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 Lilith's son, Akin, as he comes of age on a newly repopulated Earth. A "construct"--part-human, and part-Oankali--he 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 Lilith's hybrid progeny, Jodahs, through the jungles of a regenerating Earth. Raised as a male child, he discovers in his adolescence that he is becoming the first part-human ooloi, a member of the Oankali's shapeshifting, astonishingly powerful and perceptive third sex--a discovery with intense personal and planetary consequences.

Continuing the Library of America's definitive edition of Butler's works, this volume offers authoritative texts of the novels, helpful notes, and a chronology of Butler's life and career.

About the Author
Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was the renowned author of numerous groundbreaking novels including Kindred, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, and a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work, in 1995 she became the first science-fiction writer to win the MacArthur Fellowship. An Afrofuturist pioneer, her dystopian novels explore myriad themes of Black injustice, women's rights, global warming, and human survival, and her work is taught in over two hundred colleges and universities nationwide.

Imani Perry is the National Book Award-winning author of South to America, as well as seven other books of nonfiction. She is the Henry A. Morss Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Perry lives between Philadelphia and Cambridge with her two sons.

Octavia E. Butler: Lilith's Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy (Loa #393): Dawn / Adulthood Rites / Imago

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