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Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler, Aldrich Barrett, Ernest Riera Arbussà is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Adulthood Rites about?
The second book in the Lilith's Brood trilogy, this story takes place years after the arrival of Oankali aliens in the first book. Now, the Oankali have established some colonies on Earth, where they live and breed with humans. Other villages are populated by human resisters, who refuse to interact or breed with the Oankali but are frustrated because they can no longer reproduce on their own and feel they have no future. Akin, a boy "construct" born with mixed human and Oankali DNA, confronts these tensions between the two species and grapples with his own identity.
Who reads Adulthood Rites?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Octavia E. Butler, Aldrich Barrett, Ernest Riera Arbussà
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780445209039
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy
- Rating
- 4.16 / 5 (48 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Xenogénesis. II, Ritos de madurez (1989)
- Adulthood Rites : Xenogenesis (1988)
- Rituale: Zweiter Roman der Xenogenesis-Trilogie (Xenogenesis, #2) (2012)
- Ritos de Madurez (1989)
- Ritos de Madurez(ok) (1989)
- Rituale: Zweiter Roman der Xenogenesis-Trilogie (Xenogenesis, #2) (1991)
- [Xenogenesis 02] • Rituale (1993)
- Rituale: Zweiter Roman der Xenogenesis-Trilogie (Xenogenesis, #2) (2010)
- Imago (Xenogenesis Series) (1990)
- Xenogénesis. II, Ritos de madurez (2012)
- Rituale: Zweiter Roman der Xenogenesis-Trilogie (Xenogenesis, #2) (1993)
- Xenogenesis 02 - Rituale (1991)
- Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, Book Two) (2012)
- Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, Book Two) (1997)
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