Wild Seed
by Octavia E. Butler
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Dust jacket chipped and toned along edges with rubbing alon gspine, and creasing and slightly heaviler wear to bottom edge. Boards shelfworn and corners bumped. Binding is sound. Foxing to top edge of text block, but pages otherwise unmarked.
The fourth published book in the Patternist series, but the first chronologically, following the struggle between the immortals Doro and Anyanwu.
Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13616
- Title
- Wild Seed
- Author
- Octavia E. Butler
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1980
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
About the Seller
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- Rubbing
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....