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      Imago

      by Octavia E. Butler
      Published
      Jan 1989
      Main Genre
      Science Fiction Sci-Fi
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      224
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      Series
      Xenogenesis Book 3

      About This Book

      The long interbreeding between Earth and the Oankali aliens is nearly complete--and suddenly endangered--by a child.

      But it's not a boy or a girl.

      XENOGENESIS: The birth of something new--and foreign.

      Jodahs is a human-ooloi, the Oankali third sex. Jodahs might be the link between all that is human and all that is not; able to shape-shift, heal the maimed, and change DNA by touch. But a single flawed ooloi can destroy a world, mutate the ground it walks on, and spread disease with every breath.

      Now, in jungle exile, a child must master powers beyond comprehension or become a mad, living plague. And to survive, Jodahs must find the one thing the Oankali's amazing science can never provide.

      A miracle ...

      Series Placement

      Book 3
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      Speculative Fiction

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      Science Fiction

      Characters & Occupations

      Aliens

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      First Edition Mar 1990 Popular Library ISBN13 9780445209770 ISBN10 0445209771
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      Jan 2022 Headline (UK) ISBN13 9781472281081 ISBN10 147228108X
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      Apr 1989 Warner ISBN13 9780446514729 ISBN10 0446514721
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