
Big Good: The ooloi Nikanj guides most of humanity's resurrection and fusion with the Oankali over more than a century.Many of the humans, however, don't see it that way. Benevolent Alien Invasion: The Oankali generally mean well, as they see themselves making humanity better by creating a new, unflawed race.If the man gets past his confusion, it may still be only for a single ooloi. Due to how humans interpret Oankali reproduction, the "active" ooloi present human men with an apparently nonviable pairing when they try to seduce them. Alien Gender Confusion: Humans have a very hard time figuring out what sex an Oankali is if it's not an adult ooloi.It took centuries for the Oankali to repair the Earth's biosphere afterwards. After the End: The first book opens after nuclear war, which the Oankali almost interpreted as a collective suicide by humanity.Lampshaded when an all-human village takes in a half-Oankali girl named Shkaht and questions what sort of name that is.


Aerith and Bob: Family names start getting strange when the Oankali aliens start having children with humans for example, Lilith and Tino have children named Jodahs and Aaor.He remarks that she has an unfortunate name, since it's the same as the woman who betrayed humanity by allying with the Oankali, before she explains she is that woman. Actually, I Am Him: In the second book, Lilith introduces herself to a human who had run away from the Oankali.The first in the series follows Lilith after she awakens to her new world, while the sequels are told from the point of view of her genetically altered children.

Lilith's Brood, by Octavia Butler, previously published as Xenogenesis, is the compilation of three novels. They have reconstructed Earth in order to make it habitable for what is left of the humans, but in order to rebuild humanity, the Oankali must change it forever. The Oankali are driven to travel the universe in search of other intelligent species to breed with in order to share their genetic code, altering both species. Lilith Iyapo awakens to find that most of the Earth has been destroyed by nuclear war, and the surviving humans have been kept in suspended animation by an alien race called the Oankali.
