Lilith’s Brood
By: Octavia E. Butler.
Publisher: Aspect/Warner Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 746
Subjects: Science fiction, American
Description: Lilith Lyapo 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.
Table of contents: title: Dawn; title: Adulthood rites; title: Imago