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8vo, hardcover in dj, 662pp. 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 ìBloodchildî From the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award-winning author of Kindred, the Parable novels, and ìBloodchild,î here in its spellbinding entirety is Octavia E. Butlerís epic of human survival and transformation. Conceived against a backdrop of Reagan-era nuclear brinksmanship, Lilithís Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogyóa classic of Afrofuturist speculative fictionóoffers profound reflections on race, biology, colonialism, resistance, consent, sexuality, community, hybridity, technology, power, and the future of humankind. At the beginning of Dawn, Butlerís 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 apocalypseóand 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 Lilithís 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 Lilithís son, Akin, as he comes of age on a newly repopulated Earth. A ìconstructîópart-human, and part-Oankalióhe is raised among human ìresisters,î 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 Lilithís 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 Oankaliís shapeshifting, astonishingly powerful and perceptive third sexóa discovery with intense personal and planetary consequences. Continuing the Library of Americaís definitive edition of Butlerís works, this volume offers authoritative texts of the novels, helpful notes, and a chronology of Butler's life and career.