Wild Seed (Patternist): 1st printing
by Octavia E. Butler
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0445205377
- ISBN 13
- 9780445205376
- Seller
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About This Item
Hugo and Nebula Award winning author.
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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- Bookseller
- jonny8books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1304
- Title
- Wild Seed (Patternist)
- Author
- Octavia E. Butler
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0445205377
- ISBN 13
- 9780445205376
- Publisher
- Popular Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 279
- Size
- 7x5x1
- Keywords
- Fiction. Genetic engineering. Xenogenesis , Hugo, Nebula,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
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