![]() The Lilith’s Brood trilogy (sometimes known as the Xenogenesis trilogy) gets less attention, but as Butler keeps growing in renown, I’m hopeful that these wonderful, complicated books will one day get the audience they deserve.īutler was born in 1947 in Pasadena, and was raised by her mother, a maid, and grandmother, after her father, a shoe shiner, died when she was seven. Lilith’s Brood, which consists of Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988) and Imago (1989) is a fascinating look at interspecies cooperation and co-habitation, as well as a study of humanity, our weaknesses and potential downfalls.īutler is best known for her bracing time-travelling novel about slavery, Kindred (1979) and her Parable books, written in the Nineties and presciently right about a dangerous, disingenuous president running on a platform to ‘make America great again’. ![]() Over a three-year period in the late Eighties, Octavia Butler wrote one of the most interesting and thoughtful sci-fi trilogies around. ![]()
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