Imago
  • Published:
    1989
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    Print / eBook / Audio
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  • Main Genre:
    Science Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Futuristic
  • Pages:
    224
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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 ...
Sub-Genres
People / Creatures
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Mar-1990
    • Popular Library
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0445209771
    • ISBN13: 9780445209770
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    • Apr-1997
    • Aspect
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0446603635
    • ISBN13: 9780446603638
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    • Jan-2022
    • Grand Central
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1538753731
    • ISBN13: 9781538753736
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    • Jan-2022
    • Headline (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 147228108X
    • ISBN13: 9781472281081
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    • Apr-1989
    • Warner
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0446514721
    • ISBN13: 9780446514729
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    • Jul-2012
    • Open Road Publishing
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1453263691
    • ISBN13: 9781453263693
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    • Jul-2012
    • Grand Central
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1538765489
    • ISBN13: 9781538765487
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    • Jul-2012
    • Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Mar-2023
    • Grand Central Publishing
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Nov-2015
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1511338504
    • ISBN13: 9781511338509



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