Lilith’s Brood // The Xenogenesis Trilogy (LOA #393)

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 ofKindred, theParablenovels, and Bloodchild

From the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award-winning author ofKindred, theParablenovels, and Bloodchild, here in its spellbinding entirety is Octavia E. Butlers epic of human survival and transformation. Conceived against a backdrop of Reagan-era nuclear brinksmanship,Liliths Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogya classic of Afrofuturist speculative fictionoffers profound reflections on race, biology, colonialism, resistance, consent, sexuality, community, hybridity, technology, power, and the future of humankind.

At the beginning ofDawn, Butlers 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 apocalypseand 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 Liliths 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 Ritestells the story of Liliths son, Akin, as he comes of age on a newly repopulated Earth. A constructpart-human, and part-Oankalihe is raised among human resisters, 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.

Imagofollows another of Liliths hybrid progeny, Jodahs, on Akins now-established Mars colony. Raised as a male child, he discovers in his adolescence that he is becoming the first part-human ooloi, a member of the Oankalis shapeshifting, astonishingly powerful and perceptive third sexa discovery with intense personal and planetary consequences.

Continuing the Library of Americas definitive edition of Butlers works, this volume offers authoritative texts of the novels, helpful notes, and a chronology of Butler’s life and career.

Octavia E. Butler(19472006) was the renowned author of numerous groundbreaking novels includingKindred,Wild Seed, andParable of the Sower. Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, and a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work, in 1995 she became the first science-fiction writer to win the MacArthur Fellowship. An Afrofuturist pioneer, her dystopian novels explore myriad themes of Black injustice, womens rights, global warming, and human survival, and her work is taught in over two hundred colleges and universities nationwide.

Imani Perryis the National Book Awardwinning author ofSouth to America, as well as seven other books of nonfiction. She is the Henry A. Morss Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Perry lives between Philadelphia and Cambridge with her two sons.

• Publisher:Library of America (October 14, 2025)
• Octavia E. Butler Collected Stories
• Language:English
• Hardcover:662 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781598538182
• Item Weight:1.5 pounds
• Dimensions: 4.9 X 4.9 X 0.0 inches | 1.3 pounds