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Paperback, back cover and last page have a small tear on top edge, light wear otherwise, pages a little yellowed, text clean
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About this book
Wild Seed is the first book chronologically in the Patternist series, although it is the fourth published. The story centers around the main characters of Doro and Anyanwu, two immortals living in Africa. Doro is a spirit who can inhabit other people's bodies but kills them recklessly. He is breeding a race of superhumans, along with his son Issac. Anyanwu is a shapeshifting healer and one of the only beings Doro can't sense when she changes into an animal. Doro is compelled and threatened by her power, but she becomes repulsed by his callous murders. If they can work together, they have the true power to change the world. Butler's novel explores eugenics, the ethics of controlled evolution, and the creation of a black superrace through the same means colonists and enslavers used to promote white supremacy. Butler also portrayed a strong black female protagonist when they were nearly nonexistent in American literature.
First line
Doro discovered the woman by accident when he went to see what was left of one of his seed villages.
First Edition Identification
Doubleday published the first edition of Wild Seed in 1980. It has "Stated First Edition" on the copyright page and Code K23 on page 246. The original cover was designed by John Cayea, an artist for Doubleday best known for his iconic cover of Stephen King's The Stand. The illustration on the first edition of Wild Seed portrays Anyanwu, the novel's female shapeshifter protagonist, transforming from an infant into a young adult.
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- Title Wild Seed
- Author Octavia butler
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First paperback
- Publisher POCKET, New York
- Date August 1, 1981
- ISBN 9780671430665
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Wild Seed
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Pocket Timescape, 1981. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Mass Market paperback with black covers. Tiny bit of corner wear. No creasing on spine or covers. Tight binding. 256 pp.
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Wild Seed
by Octavia Butler
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Pocket, August 1981. Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good. Mass Market paperback with black covers. Tiny bit of corner wear. No creasing on spine or covers. Tight binding. 256 pp. sku 136456
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Pocket, 8/1/1981 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Very Good. 0.8000 in x 7.0000 in x 4.1000 in. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.
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Pocket, 1981-08-01. Paperback. Good. 0.8000 7.0000 4.1000. 1st printing with full number line. A copy that's been read but with minimal wear and creases to the book. Pages are tanned but clean.
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Pocket. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!
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