# Lilith’s Brood (Xenogenesis trilogy) ## Overview - Work_type:: character-focused SF about post-apocalyptic recovery and hybridization - Setting:: Post-nuclear Earth and later off-world environments with the Oankali - Scale:: Interplanetary/local stellar neighborhood ## Trans-human form - Transhuman_type:: bio-enhanced - Mechanism:: Deep genetic integration between humans and Oankali; engineered hybrids with new capabilities - Degree_of_change:: Extreme; “humans” become a new hybrid species with alien senses and biology ## Survival logic - Survival_strategy:: Abandon strict human purity in favor of a more adaptable hybrid lineage - Key_technologies:: Organic biotech, living ships, direct genetic manipulation by alien partners - Main_constraints_addressed:: Species-level extinction risk, limited genetic toolkit, environmental fragility ## View on baseline humanity - View_on_baseline:: replacement - Attitude:: Baseline humanity is unsustainable; survival requires transformation that many characters perceive as loss - Identity_question:: Central tension is whether hybrids are still “human” and who has the right to decide ## Notes - Themes:: Consent, power, survival vs. identity, colonial and reproductive politics - Open_questions:: Is survival as something new better than extinction as humans? - Links:: [[Trans-human Space Survival Schema]]