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Wild Seed

Wild Seed

Wild Seed
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Wild Seed

by Octavia E. Butler

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  • Hardcover
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Used - Good/Good
ISBN 10
0385151608
ISBN 13
9780385151603
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Doubleday , July 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Good/Good. Stated first edition; light edgewear to dust jacket, minor scuffing to covers, name of former owners inscribed on ffep, book block otherwise clean and square, binding good.

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
Gavin's Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
142824
Title
Wild Seed
Author
Octavia E. Butler
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0385151608
ISBN 13
9780385151603
Publisher
Doubleday
Place of Publication
Garden City
Date Published
July 1980
Pages
248

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Inscribed
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