Lilith's Brood - Softcover

Butler, Octavia E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446676101 ISBN 13: 9780446676106

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

From the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of Parable of the Sower, an epic, sensual, and disturbing afrofuturistic trilogy of human transformation—presented for the first time in a single volume.

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 called 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 ...

Includes an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph.D.

About this title

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.

From the Back Cover

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...

Edition details

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446676101
• ISBN 13: 9780446676106
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 752