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Cover art: John Jude Palencar
Blurb: “MacArthur Foundation grant recipient Octavia E. Butler's award-winning novels have earned her an acclalmed place in women's fiction, African-American literature, and speculative fiction.
The Xenogeness Serles Is an evocative, sensual-and disturbing-epic of human transformation.
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Child of the Earth and stars, Jodahs can shapeshift, heal the maimed, cure cancer, create contagion with every breath, or mutate the ground with a touch. Jodahs is an oolol, a being beyond gender, born with the allen Oankali power to mix pure DNA within its body. But the child is also the first ooloi born to a human mother, and its destiny is unknown. The futures of both humans and Oankali rest in one young being's successful metamorphosis into adulthood.
Jodahs can become a mad, living plague-or a bridge of peace. Its challenge is to reconcile its galactic heritage of gene trading with the rage of a people facing a terrifying dilemma. For human children will inherit the universe only if they lose all that makes them human.”