The Complete Lilith's Brood Series

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower, this revelatory post-
apocalyptic series thoughtfully explores themes of gender, race, and power
amidst times of crisis and change.

Dawn:
When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard
the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali--a seemingly
benevolent alien race--intervened in the fate of the humanity hundreds of
years ago, saving everyone who survived a nuclear war from a dying, ruined
Earth and then putting them into a deep sleep. After learning all they could
about Earth and its beings, the Oankali healed the planet, cured cancer,
increased human strength, and they now want Lilith to lead her people back to
Earth--but salvation comes at a price.

Hopeful and thought-provoking, this post-apocalyptic narrative deftly explores
gender and race through the eyes of characters struggling to adapt during a
pivotal time of crisis and change.

Adulthood Rites:
In the future, nuclear war has destroyed nearly all humankind. An alien race
intervenes, saving the small group of survivors from certain death. But their
salvation comes at a cost.

The Oankali are able to read and mutate genetic code, and they use these
skills for their own survival, interbreeding with new species to constantly
adapt and evolve. They value the intelligence they see in humankind but also
know that the species--rigidly bound to destructive social hierarchies--is
destined for failure. They are determined that the only way forward is for the
two races to produce a new hybrid species--and they will not tolerate
rebellion.

Akin looks like an ordinary human child. But as the first true human-alien
hybrid, he is born understanding language, then starts to form sentences at
two months old. He can see at a molecular level and kill with a touch. More
powerful than any human or Oankali, he will be the architect of both races'
future. But before he can carry this new species into the stars, Akin must
reconcile with his own heritage in a world already torn in two.

Imago:
Since a nuclear war decimated the human population, the remaining humans began
to rebuild their future by interbreeding with an alien race -- the Oankali --
who saved them from near-certain extinction. The Oankalis' greatest skill lies
in the species' ability to constantly adapt and evolve, a process that is
guided by their third sex, the ooloi, who are able to read and mutate genetic
code.

Now, for the first time in the humans' relationship with the Oankali, a human
mother has given birth to an ooloi child: Jodahs. Throughout his childhood,
Jodahs seemed to be a male human-alien hybrid. But when he reaches
adolescence, Jodahs develops the ooloi abilities to shapeshift, manipulate
DNA, cure and create disease, and more. Frightened and isolated, Jodahs must
either come to terms with this new identity, learn to control new powers, and
unite what's left of humankind -- or become the biggest threat to their
survival.