Lilith's Brood -- Octavia E. Butler

<b>The acclaimed trilogy that comprises Lilith's Brood is Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best.</b> <p/> 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. <p/> 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...<br><br><b>Author:</b> Octavia E. Butler<br><b>Publisher:</b> Grand Central Publishing<br><b>Published:</b> 06/01/2000<br><b>Pages:</b> 752<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.24lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.30d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780446676106<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>OCTAVIA E. BUTLER<i></i>was 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 <i>Parable of the Sower, </i> which was a <i>New York Times </i>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