- American Science fiction, Fiction, general, Genetics, Fiction
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.
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- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Octavia E. Butler
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 746
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., Turtleback Books
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781453271728
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An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. [Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]: Octavia E Butler (1947–2006) > I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler's Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I'd never heard of her – nor have a great many other readers, I suspect. For many years, Butler was the sole African-American woman novelist in science fiction. Kindred tells the wrenching and unforgettable story of a young black
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