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Is this bigger?

Yup.

• Octavia Butler
• Urusula le Guin
• Thomas Pynchon
• Jorge Luis Borges

War of the worlds

Golden Gate Bridge in Fog is Alway Relevant

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1. American Revolution
2. War of 1812
3. Mexican-American War
4. Wicked Pipe
5. Spanish American
6. World War I

and this is smaller...

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how low can you go

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probably not

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oh I guess so

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Lilith's Brood

Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago
Author	Octavia E. Butler
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Grand Central Publishing
Published	1987–2000

Xenogenesis (1989) is an out of print science fiction collection by Octavia Butler originally published by GuildAmerica Books. It collects three works: Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988), and Imago (1989). The collection was republished by Aspect / Warner Books in 2000 under the variant title Lilith's Brood. This edition is still in print today. CITE ISFDB

Books

Dawn

DAWN FIRST EDITION PICTURE FROM ISFDB Dawn is the first book in the Xenogenesis trilogy, originally published in 1987 by Warner Books. The title page gives the series name directly under the stylized title, so the title might be construed as Dawn: Xenogenesis. CITE ISFDB This novel follows Lilith Iyapo, MORE SYNOPSIS

Adulthood Rites

ADULTHOOD RITES FIRST EDITION PICTURE FROM ISFDB Adulthood Rites is the second book in the "Xenogenesis" trilogy, originally published in 1988 by Warner Books. It takes place a couple of decades (???) after the end of Dawn, and follows Akin Iyapo, Lilith's genetically mixed human/Oankali son. MORE SYNOPSIS

Imago

IMAGO FIRST EDITION PICTURE FROM ISFDB Imago is the third book in teh Xenogenesis trilogy, originally published in 1989 by Warner Books. It takes place ....

Lilith's Brood

PICTURE OF LILITH'S BROOD COVER Intro by Joan Slonchevski Status as African American and feminist (and queer?) Broader republication effort

Critical Reception

The series has been well studied in an academic environment. Review various studies: Racial Feminist Cyborg Biological Determinism Integrate secondary sources in a meaningful way.

Synopsis (TO BE CUT)

Lilith's Brood introduces the alien species, known as Oankali, who come in three sexes - male, female and ooloi, a sex that mixes and manipulates the genetic material produced by the other two. The series also draws upon elements of the myth of Lilith, the first wife of Adam.

The central characters are Lilith and her genetically altered children. Lilith, along with the few other surviving humans, are saved by extraterrestrials, the Oankali, after a "handful of people [a military group] tried to commit humanicide," leading to a missile war that destroyed much of Earth. The Oankali have a third gender, the ooloi, who have the ability to manipulate genetics, plus the ability of sexually seductive neural-stimulating and consciousness-sharing powers. All of these abilities allow them to unify the other two genders in their species, as well as unifying their species with others that they encounter. The Oankali are biological traders, driven to share genes with other intelligent species, changing both parties.

In the first novel in the trilogy, Dawn, published in 1987, Lilith Iyapo is found in the Andes Mountains, and revived from a biochemically induced hibernation by the Oankali following a nuclear war on earth which causes the near-extinction of humanity and destruction of 80% of its population. The goal of the Oankali is to colonize earth with Oankali-human hybrids. In the trilogy's second book, Adulthood Rites, published in 1988, Akin, Lilith's part-Oankali son is abducted by sterile human resisters, and held in a forest prison. The final book of the series, Imago, was published in 1989. It is about Lilith's ooloi child, Jodahs, who comes of age and integrates human and alien societies. In entomology, an imago is the adult stage of an insect; it's also a term used in Jungian psychology.

See also

• List of female action heroes

Further reading

• Federmayer, Eva. "Octavia Butler's Maternal Cyborgs: The Black Female World of the Xenogenesis Trilogy." HJEAS: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 6.1 (2000): 103-18.
• Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991: 149-181.
• Holden, Rebecca J. "The High Costs of Cyborg Survival: Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy." In Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, No.72 (Spring 1998): 49-57.
• Jesser, Nancy. "Blood, Genes and Gender in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Dawn." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 43.1 (2002): 36-61.
• Osherow, Michelle. "The Dawn of a New Lilith: Revisionary Mythmaking in Women's Science Fiction." NWSA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 2000): 68-83.
• Peppers, Cathy. "Dialogic Origins and Alien Identities in Butler’s XENOGENESIS." Science Fiction Studies. No. 65, Vol. 22, 1995.
• Slonczewski, Joan. "Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy: A Biologist’s Response." Presented at SFRA, Cleveland, June 30, 2000.

External links

• Lilith's Brood reviews from Powell's

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