Liliths Brood

Lilith’s Brood 

This weeks reading was one of the better ones out of the past few. I love how it talks about responsibility which is something I think everyone should take more pride into. This is another good story about humans interacting with another intelligent species, aliens. Of course in this novel the humans are weaker, making the reader feel vulnerable. Then we are introduced into the role genders play in this story. The aliens have this third category of gender called ooloi, which is described as a mixture of both male and female. Another little tid bit about the ooloi is the ability to change other genders and they can make hybrids with other species ( we find out this becomes problematic later on in the story for Lilith ). So if they went to a new planet they would have no problem blending in with whatever species that was on that planet. Hopefully there intent would be good and not malicious.

There aren't that many humans left so having any sort of connections with humans becomes very important. Can you imagine a universe full of life and being alone? Lilith and the ooloi have combined their genetics, heres the problem. She's isolated from the human race because she isn't a pure human being anymore ( figuratively ). Lilith feels like an outcast to the human race and now has to choose which humans to start over with. I can only image how difficult this must be when everyone sees you as an outsider and you have to cast that thought out of your head when making a decision. All that pressure is put on Lilith to make those choices, and to make the right one at that.