Lilith's Brood

Critical Praise

"Octavia E. Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction--period....A master storyteller."
--Washington Post Book World

"Superb...challenging and visionary...A classic."
--Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer

"A minor masterpiece....Her prose is lean and literate, her ideas expansive and elegant."
--Houston Post

"Shows the author at the height of her imaginative and writing powers."
--Essence

"This is vintage Butler...a perfect introduction to her work for the unfamiliar. Butler sets the imagination free, blending the real and the possible."
--United Press International

"Impeccably crafted...satisfying...Butler's literary craftsmanship is superb."
--Washington Post Book World

"Butler in top form...spare, vivid prose...intriguing, well-developed ideas, solid characters, and crisp narrative."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Well written, thoughtful."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Clever, thoughtful, and engaging."
--Ms.

"[She creates] some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre...real women caught in impossible situations."
--Village Voice

"Butler brings Toni Morrison to mind."
--Publishers Weekly

"She is one of those rare authors who pay serious attention to the way human beings actually work together and against each other, and she does so with extraordinary plausibility."
--Locus

"Her visions are strange, hypnotic distortions of our own uncomfortable world....Butler's African-American feminist perspective is unique."
--L.A. Style

"What 'cyberpunk' author William Gibson does for young, disaffected white fans...Octavia Estelle Butler does for people of color. She gives us a future."
--Vibe

"She uses disciplined extrapolation to explore the dark possibilities of the near future....Butler simply takes existing helter-skelter and turns up the volume a few notches."
--from Ecology of Fear, by Mike Davis