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Wild Seed
by Butler, Octavia E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible-Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385151608
- ISBN 13
- 9780385151603
- Seller
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Bloomington, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co Inc, 1980. Clean and tight. Sharp corners. Slight slant. Ex-library copy with a clean pocket on the last page. Withdrawn stamped on the title page and on the inside of the back cover. Library number stamped on the title page. Faint tape marks on the boards. Library name stamped on the tiptop of the pages. Dark red.brown boards with white lettering on the spine. Stated First Edition. Code K23 on page 246. Doubleday Science Fiction. The dust jacket does not have any library markings on it and has very little shelfwear. The jacket is in new mylar.. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Science Fiction.
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
- funyettabooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046487
- Title
- Wild Seed
- Author
- Butler, Octavia E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible-Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385151608
- ISBN 13
- 9780385151603
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Science Fiction
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- First Edition
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- New
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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