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Lilith's Brood

Book 1-3 of the Xenogenesis series

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...

Genre
aliens and first contactscience fictionfantasypost-apocalypticdystopia
Themes
feminismafrican americandiversitygenderLGBT
Setting
1980s
Mood
darkaction packedthought provoking
Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 746 pages

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