Xenogenesis trilogy

"When Lilith Iyapo wakes from a deep sleep, she finds herself aboard a vast spaceship, haunted by confused memories of a nuclear war that ravaged the world. She discovers that she is being held by the Oankali, a seemingly benevolent alien race that intervened in the human race's extinction, rescuing the survivors from their ruined planet and placing them in a coma-like sleep for centuries. Now the restored Earth is ready for inhabitants, and the Oankali...

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. There...

"Here in its entirety is Octavia E. Butler's wildly imaginative saga of human survival and transformation... Conceived against the backdrop of 1980s Cold War brinksmanship, these classics of Afrofuturist speculative fiction from the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award-winning author of Kindred and the Parable series asks prophetic questions about genetics and hybridity, colonization and consent, gender and sexuality, family and community, technology and...