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	Oankali
		The main unit of the oankali is the family, consisting of a male, a female, an ooloi, and children.
		Unintelligent creatures that attack the oankali are sampled and put to sleep; they either are left where they are or are traded to some creature that considers the creature valuable (as food, for magical parts, etc.).
		The oankali use this "building" as a type of community hall, while the asteroid becomes engulfed in various forms of moss, grass, vines, and perhaps even small trees and shrubs, that the oankali cultivate from their genetic samples.
	lost.spelljammer.org /DrawingBoard/monsters/Oankali.html (2294 words)

	Oankali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oankali can hear human heartbeats at a distance, as well as sub-vocalization (words murmured to oneself without actually opening the mouth), and their scent allows them to detect the species, gender, and emotional status of humans.
		This is the pattern imposed on humans who elect to intermingle with Oankali; the resisters are rendered sterile and left to fend for themselves, since the Oankali believe that humanity is genetically doomed to destroy itself again and consider it immoral to allow humans to reproduce under those conditions.
		The Oankali can instruct it to grow projections to serve as houses, walls, tables, platforms, etc. The colony where Lilith and her mates and children live is named Lo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oankali (1865 words)

	Oankali
		After the near-extinction of humanity in a nuclear war, the Oankali arrive in their organic interstellar ship and rescue the few remaining survivors for the purpose of genetic "trade": They intend to interbreed with humanity.
		Oankali are natural genetic engineers, and are driven to seek out new lifeforms and trade with them in order to keep themselves from overspecializing and stagnating.
		The Oankali, their ships, their various specialized organisms and all life on Earth after contact contain the Oankali organelle in every cell, much like mitochondria.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/o/oa/oankali.html (988 words)

	Oankali
		The Oankali are a race of aliens in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy (also published in an omnibus edition under the title Lilith's Brood).
		Oankali apparently have no art (at least that humans would recognize), music or written language.
		Constructs are born from five-person family groups comprising one female Oankali, one male Oankali, one female human, one male human and one Oankali ooloi.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/o/oa/oankali.html (995 words)

	Cathy Peppers- Dialogic Origins and Alien Identities in Butler’s XENOGENESIS
		For example, the Oankali are particularly attracted to Lilith’s "talent" for cancer, which they are able to genetically engineer to enable the regrowth of lost limbs, and eventually to create construct children who are shapeshifters.
		While a xenophobic reaction to the alien Oankali is figured in the text as a biological revulsion, so is attraction to them, and Lilith and others learn to overcome their revulsion.
		Akin cannot decide whether the Oankali represent a necessary symbiosis ensuring human survival or predatory enemies blocking human evolution (§3.4:433), and while he is convinced, as are the Oankali, that human evolution is biologically determined, at the same time, "chance exists.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/65/peppers65art.htm (6054 words)

	Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy: An Introduction
		The few humans who survive the war are rescued and captured by the Oankali, a nomadic alien species that travels through the universe seeking partner species with whom to "trade" their own genes.
		Lilith’s "Awakening" among the Oankali evokes the dehumanization of slave conditions--she is naked, has to beg for clothing, and is denied reading materials and other access to her own culture and history.
		The Oankali lecture her about the superiority of their egalitarian, nonviolent lifestyle, as opposed to the hierarchical, violent tendencies of humans--just as Americans told their African slaves they were fortunate to be rescued from barbarism by their "democratic" masters.
	biology.kenyon.edu /slonc/books/butler1.html (1644 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - Destabilizing Order, Challenging History: Octavia Butler, Deleuze and Guattari, and Affective ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A tentacle-covered, alien species called the Oankali attempts to save a dying Earth and takes Lilith Iyapo, the primary character in the series' first book, and uses her to begin rehabitating a new Earth and help propagate the next generation of the Oankali.
		The Oankali whom Lilith first encounters is named Jdahya; it becomes his job to tell Lilith about what happened to the Earth she knows and about the new species that she encounters.
		Oankali are able to manipulate genes in Lilith, making her stronger and removing her body's "talent" for cancer, thus amending her reliance on inherited traits to form her genetic structure; such a transition-from descent-based attributes to genetic manipulation-removes heredity's hold on Lilith, as the Oankali change her genetic make-up.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=154540 (6430 words)

	HHMI's BioInteractive - A Third Sex?
		When an Oankali male and female combine their germ cells, the ooloi participates in the mating by a natural form of genetic engineering that ensures that the best or "most fit" genetic combinations occur.
		The only way out of the dead end is for Oankali populations periodically to embrace alien species, taking in their genetic diversity to regenerate Oankali diversity.
		The Oankali claim that their "trade" with humans is an equal exchange because the human participants, and their alien descendants, will obtain enhanced biological powers, as well as escape the cycle of violence that leads to nuclear war.
	www.hhmi.org /biointeractive/gender/third_sex.html (760 words)

	Oankali - Definition, explanation
		After the near-extinction of humanity in a nuclear war, the Oankali arrive in their organic interstellar ship and rescue the few remaining survivors for the purpose of genetic "trade": They intend to interbreed with humanity.
		Oankali are natural genetic engineers, and are driven to seek out new lifeforms and trade with them in order to keep themselves from overspecializing and stagnating.
		The Oankali, their ships, their various specialized organisms and all life on Earth after contact contain the Oankali organelle in every cell, much like mitochondria.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/o/oa/oankali.php (1045 words)

	Octavia Butler's Dawn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Oankali have captured or "saved" the remaining humans from a post-apocalyptic Earth in order to breed with the humans to create a better species.
		The Oankali claim not to be hierarchical, however it is clear that the ooloi are the dominant sex serving as the bridge in sexual and reproductive activity.
		And in spite of Jdahya's claim that the Oankali were not hierarchical, the ooloi seemed to be the head of the house.
	v5o5jotqkgfu3btr91t7w5fhzedjaoaz8igl.unbsj.ca /~q6eu2/scifi/dawn.html (1377 words)

	[No title]
		The Oankali are master manipulators; they first "prove" to the humans that humanity is flawed, and then through a subtle series of reinforcements, they bend a number of humans to their way of thinking.
		Kidnapped as a child, with an almost totally human form, he finds he must become as Oankali as possible to prove to his captors, sterile humans, that the Oankali aren't the totally evil beings they are perceived as by the humans.
		The Oankali were not expecting a construct Ooloi; they attempt to take Jodah to the ship, where he would be used as a permanent biological experiment.
	www.plaidworks.org /chuqui/downloads/OtherRealms/25-14.txt (1431 words)

	Chapter Excerpt: Imago by Octavia E. Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		My Oankali mother, Ahajas, would have talked to one of my fathers for me. She had done that for two of my brothers who had been afraid of metamorphosis—afraid they would change too much, lose all signs of their Humanity.
		The Oankali said the chemical bonds of mating were as difficult to break as the habit of breathing.
		We, Oankali and construct, were space-going people, as curious about other life and as acquisitive of it as Humans were hierarchical.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/77/0446603635/chapter_excerpt304.html (2895 words)

	Octavia Butler
		Oankali have saved a small number of terrains, studied them, transformed their genetic material, prepared them for rebirth, so that human culture may survive, albeit in a substantially transformed fashion.
		The Oankali, in turn, are driven to absorb new genetic material, to rework it within their bodies, and to change in response to the others they come into contact with.
		Oankali interrogators had painted these pictures with sensory tentacles or sensory arms, using deliberately produced bodily fluids.
	web.mit.edu /m-i-t/science_fiction/profiles/butler.html (3391 words)

	Dawn - FSFwiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		She and thousands of other human survivors have been captured/rescued by the Oankali, an alien race that controls its own evolution through deliberate "gene trading." Because they have a powerful grasp of genetics, the Oankali perceive that human biology contains within it a contradiction: intelligence and hierarchy.
		The humans have undergone significant testing at the hands of the Oankali, and Lilith has been chosen to lead her people back to Earth, which is now able to sustain life again.
		She struggles with a great deal of hatred from her fellow humans, many of whom see her as a traitor to her race because she has agreed to not only work with the Oankali, but also to participate in their plan for the future, which is to cross-breed the two species.
	wiki.feministsf.net /index.php?title=Dawn (185 words)

	[No title]
		The protagonist of the story is Akin, a construct born of a human mother and Oankali father/ooloi -- a prototype of what's to come for the human race when it has merged genetically with the Oankali for better or worse.
		When the humans were awakened, they were given the choice of cooperating with the Oankali and evolving a new race of beings, or returning to a primitive Earth with a new found longevity but without the ability to reproduce.
		When he's finally returned to the Oankali community of Lo, and then taken up to the living spaceship that is Chkahichdahk, Akin has become the spokesman for the Resisters and makes a case for returning fertility to the humans and establishing a new home for them on the chilly surface of a terraformed Mars.
	www.plaidworks.com /chuqui/downloads/OtherRealms/21-05.txt (2781 words)

	Hyperstition: Open Darwin thread
		The Oankali are utterly alien to humans because of their inquisitive attitude to cellular life: they seek out, absorb, record and genetically combine with other life.
		One of the other interesting things about the Oankali is that they refuse humans access to any of their memes apart from spoken language.
		The Oankali actually had to reactivate spoken langauge in order to communicate with humans - left to themsleves, they prefer to communicate through chemistry and language that seems to closely approximate to mentalese.
	hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org /archives/006163.html (4828 words)

	Octavia Butler - Xenogenisis
		The Oankali are excited by the prospect of an endangered species -- humanity --- and particularly excited by the talent, as they call it, for cancer that some of the survivors have.
		On the plus side, life with the Oankali means that Humans have greatly extended lifespans and superb health to look forward to, not to mention accelerated learning, edetic memory, life in an agrarian paradise.
		Lilith, chosen by the Oankali to Awaken other Humans from suspended animation and prepare them for their new lives, is both hated and feared, being viewed as a Judas goat who betrays her own kind.
	www.tulketh.high.btinternet.co.uk /kimota/articles/o_butler.htm (2464 words)

	Hyperstition: Open Darwin thread
		The Oankali are utterly alien to humans because of their inquisitive attitude to cellular life: they seek out, absorb, record and genetically combine with other life.
		One of the other interesting things about the Oankali is that they refuse humans access to any of their memes apart from spoken language.
		The Oankali actually had to reactivate spoken langauge in order to communicate with humans - left to themsleves, they prefer to communicate through chemistry and language that seems to closely approximate to mentalese.
	www.hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org /archives/006163.html (4828 words)

	Dawn : A Novel - Octavia Butler - Used Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Her last memory is of a time two and a half centuries earlier when she was traveling in the Andes, mourning the death of her family.
		A nuclear war devastated the planet, and the alien Oankali came to rescue the survivors, restore the planet, and harvest its genetic material, particularly that of the humans.
		When Lilith learns of the plan, she must decide whether cooperating with the Oankali would be the ultimate betrayal of humanity--or the only way to save it.
	www.biblio.com /books/61748991.html (844 words)

	Lilith's brood di Octavia E. Butler \| LibraryThing
		The Oankali intend to take a number of humans they saved from a nucleated earth, cross-breed with them, and reintroduce them and their alien offspring to the earth.
		The purpose of the Oankali is to collect and expand upon life forms, including their own.
		We can surmise that at their origin, the Oankali looked nothing like they are currently described as they have continued to metamorphosis genetically over the ages.
	www.librarything.it /work/53829 (1581 words)

	Raven's Reviews: Octavia Butler
		Lilith, a strong, twenty-something woman, is chosen by them to become the first liaison between humans and Oankali; she is given the unenviable task of explaining the situation to the remaining humans.
		The experience of violent, illogical humans changes him forever in ways the Oankali could not imagine; it is because of his greater experience that he imagines a future neither race could have anticipated- imagines it to the brink of reality.
		Jodahs is something the Oankali themselves have feared: an Oankali-Human hybrid with the powers of an ooloi, the special gender of Oankali that can shape and change all life.
	members.fortunecity.com /arwen_e/ko/octaviab.html (1269 words)

	girl in greenwood: book forty-nine
		The Oankali hope she will become a leader, a sort of ambassador between the humans and the aliens.
		What the humans don't seem to understand is that the aliens have made them sterile, and without the participation of the Oankali, humanity cannot reproduce any longer.
		The Oankali are not the typical scifi aliens who look like pretty much like humans - they are covered with sensory tentacles, lack eyes, ears, and noses, and some of them have four arms.
	www.emilyskinner.com /blog/2005/11/book-forty-nine.html (299 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Chapter 7 A) When she wakes up, she finds out that she can now understand and speak Oankali; Nikanj is now fluent because of the change B) Nikanj wants Lilith to stay with it while it is maturing; Nikanj agrees to show Lilith another human being without interference from Kahguyaht VIII.
		The Oankalis promised Titus that he would have sex with a woman for the first time.
		Even though Titus has been pampered with the luxuries of the Oankalis, he is still unhappy because he has not experienced love from a human being.
	www.angelfire.com /ny5/flan/homework/Outline_of_Dawn_-_Family.doc (697 words)

	Octavia Butler - Pasadena City College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Oankali intend to take a number of humans they saved from a nucleated earth, cross-breed with them, and re-introduce them and their alien offspring to the earth.
		The Oankali are an imaginative race with three genders, the third being a necessary intermediary between the male and female Oankali during intercourse and for procreation.
		They travel in an interstellar ship that is entirely made of living tissue and the Oankali physically interact with the ship to produce food, dispose of waste, and reproduce other needs.
	www.pasadena.edu /about/history/alumni/butler/butler.cfm (1483 words)

	Dawn musings
		Lilith often feels like a pet or a child belonging to the Oankali, but she is given over to one of their children (Nikanj) for keeping, despite her obvious sentience and intelligence and Nikanj's childishness.
		Humans have two biological parents, and typically one to three parents who raise the children (and this is reinforced in the book with the descriptions of Lilith's traditional family and other human families).
		The Oankali have three biological parents (I think?) and one to three parents who raise the children.
	wiz.cath.vt.edu /cgi-bin/hnews/get/litsf/8/4.html (867 words)

	Amazon.ca: Lilith's Brood: Books: Octavia E. Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Dawn: After nuclear war destroys the world, Earths survivors are rescued by the miraculously powerful Oankali aliens- who survive by merging genetically with primitive peoples without their permission.
		It's implied that the Oankali have no art, music or written language, and are indifferent to the preservation of human culture.
		Butler has a pretty bleak view of human nature (though she implies that the Oankali are just as driven by their own biology), and her stories reflect this.
	www.amazon.ca /Liliths-Brood-Octavia-E-Butler/dp/0613279417 (1418 words)

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