The celebrated trilogy that encompasses Lilith's Brood is the finest work of Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Octavia E. Butler. Presented for the first time in a single volume, with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph.D., Lilith's Brood is a profoundly immersive, sensual, and disturbing epic about human transformation. Lilith Iyapo finds herself in the Andes, mourning the death of her family as war devastates the Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected by wondrously powerful extraterrestrial beings known as the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to help others, the Oankali save our dying planet by genetically merging with humanity. However, Lilith and all of humanity must now share the world with eerie, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children. This is their story.