Lilith's Brood

What a stunning trilogy!

The writing, the ideas, the political discourse, the social commentary, the post-colonialist themes... all weaved together in a terribly humanist web. The prime question at its beginning is what it means to have power (and to use it), and what it means to not have power- yet the more it progresses, the more it becomes this multiculturalist tale of nuance.

Throughout the entire thing, I was never able to decicively choose sides. I was rooting for the Oankali, but I was also rooting for the humans. Is the survival of our race worth “losing” our humanity?

For its supreme ability to make you feel empathic for two different opposing sides alone, I give this full marks. But considering everything else, including the exploration of the human nature and irrationality, and this makes for one of my favorite trilogies I've read in a long time.

I thought the first book was by far the strongest and most interesting, but the latter two books definitely do some interesting things that wasn't in the first.