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Original Title:	Adulthood Rites
ISBN:	0446603783 (ISBN13: 9780446603782)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Xenogenesis #2
Characters:	Lilith lyapo, Ahajas, Dichaan, Nikanj, Gabriel Rinaldi, Akin, Tate
Setting:	Lo, Earth
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1989)

Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis #2)

Octavia E. Butler

Paperback | Pages: 277 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 12187 Users | 814 Reviews

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Title	:	Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis #2)
Author	:	Octavia E. Butler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 277 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1997 by Aspect (first published June 1988)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy

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In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Akin. But Akin actually has five parents: a male and female human, a male and female Oankali, and a sexless Ooloi. The Oankali and Ooloi are part of an alien race that rescued humanity from a devastating nuclear war, but the price they exact is a high one the aliens are compelled to genetically merge their species with other races, drastically altering both in the process.

On a rehabilitated Earth, this "new" race is emerging through human/Oankali/Ooloi mating, but there are also "pure" humans who choose to resist the aliens and the salvation they offer.These resisters are sterilized by the Ooloi so that they cannot reproduce the genetic defect that drives humanity to destroy itself, but otherwise they are left alone (unless they become violent).

When the resisters kidnap young Akin, the Oankali choose to leave the child with his captors, for he the most "human" of the Oankali children will decide whether the resisters should be given back their fertility and freedom, even though they will only destroy themselves again.

This is the second volume in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis series, a powerful tale of alien existence.

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Somewhere between the particular texture of the writing and the thought-sparking brilliance of the ideas, Octavia Butler's work never fails to hook me in so far I never want to leave. Like Dawn, this novel had me rambling on to friends and family about Lilith and her relationships, the Oankali and their culture.One of my friends, when I described how the Oankali feel pain when they cause it, and feel pleasure when they cause it, picked up on the theme that recurs throughout all Octavia's work

Loved every second of it!

God, these books are so incredibly good!!! I haven't enjoyed a story this much for a long time. Although I have to admit, the humans in this particular one are a solid pile of turds. Like you almost don't want them to survive as a species! Anyway, I can't wait to see how this story ends.

Impressive. I definitely liked this second story in the trilogy better than the first. The other was very much a foundation, but while we really don't follow Lillith from the first, we do follow her hybrid son as he makes his way through an early difficult childhood and into his Adulthood Rite.Akim is a victim as much as he is a bridge between the ignorant and dispirited humans brought down to Earth and the aliens who misunderstand our humanity. We're a paradox of hierarchical madness and

That wont do him much good with some Humans. Theyll resent him for not being completely Human and for looking more Human than their kids. Theyll hate him for looking much younger than he sounds. Theyll hate him because they havent been allowed to have sons. Your people have made Human-looking male babies a very valuable commodity. (p. 258)Adulthood Rites is the second book in Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood Xenogenesis Trilogy. In short, Humans go to war, killing Earth and its inhabitants. A

Adulthood Rites: A human-Oankali child is torn between two speciesOriginally posted at Fantasy LiteratureAdulthood Rites (1988) is the second book in Octavia Butlers XENOGENESIS trilogy. It continues the story of Lilith in Dawn (1987), a human woman revived by the alien Oankali centuries after humanity has mostly destroyed itself with nuclear weapons. The Oankali offered humanity a second chance, but at a price to merge its genes with the Oankali, who are gene traders driven to continuously

This is the second of three novels in the Xenogenesis series by Octavia Butler. It is a fine example of a well-thought-out and executed sci-fi concept. It held my attention from beginning to end.The main character from the first book, Lillith, may be the only human on Earth who is fertile. She has a child, Akin. However, Akin is not an ordinary human, as he is the child of five individuals; a male and female human, a male and female Oankali, and a third sex Oankali known as an "ooloi". In