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Lilith's Brood, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Science fiction
The concluding book in Octavia E. Butler's devastatingly original Lilith's Brood trilogy.
Child of the Earth and stars, Jodahs can shapeshift, heal the maimed, cure cancer ... and create contagion with every breath. The child is an ooloi, a being beyond gender, born with the alien Oankali power to mix pure DNA within its body. But Jodahs is also the first ooloi born to a human mother, and its destiny is unknown. The futures if both humans and Oankali rest in one young being's successful metamorphosis into adulthood.
Jodahs can become a mad, living plague - or a bridge of peace. Its challenge is to reconcile its galactic heritage of gene trading with the rage of a people facing a terrifying dilemma. For human children will inherit the universe only if they lose all that makes them human.
Praise for Imago (Lilith's Brood Book Three)
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Gripping reading ... bold and original - OtherRealms
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Butler is among the best SF writers. Her prose is lean and literate, her ideas expansive and elegant - Houston Post
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Gripping reading ... bold and original - OtherRealms
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Butler is among the best SF writers. Her prose is lean and literate, her ideas expansive and elegant - Houston Post
Octavia E. Butler
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER (1947-2006) was the renowned author of numerous ground-breaking 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 receive the MacArthur Fellowship 'Genius Grant'. A pioneer of her genre, Octavia's dystopian novels explore myriad themes of Black injustice, women's rights, global warming and political disparity, and her work is taught in over two hundred colleges and universities nationwide.
In 2020, Octavia E. Butler became a New York Times bestselling author.
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