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WILD SEED (SIGNED & INSCRIBED)
by Butler, Octavia E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket, with no remainder spray, as is often found with this book and just a minor bump at the base of spine.
- ISBN 10
- 0385151608
- ISBN 13
- 9780385151603
- Seller
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Derry, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 1980. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket, with no remainder spray, as is often found with this book and just a minor bump at the base of spine. Very sharp copy.. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Fourth novel published in the PATTERNIST series, although, chronologically first in the story. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY BUTLER on the title page. An Amazon Prime series based on the book is in-the-works, being produced by Viola Davis and being co-written by award-winning sci-fi novelist Nnedi Okorafor, with filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu, slated to direct. Considered by most fans to be the best novel in the PATTERNIST series. Listed as one of Pringle's SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELS. PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers.
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
- Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50720
- Title
- WILD SEED (SIGNED & INSCRIBED)
- Author
- Butler, Octavia E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket, with no remainder spray, as is often found with this book and just a minor bump at the base of spine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385151608
- ISBN 13
- 9780385151603
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- scifi, black, mmb
Terms of Sale
Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Please note that all items are offered subject to prior sale. All our books are FIRST EDITIONS and FIRST PRINTINGS unless noted otherwise. All dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers. All books are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 10 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Derry, New Hampshire
About Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Modern first editions - mainly American and English - many of the books being signed; poetry, poetry broadsides, and press books. Most of our holdings are modern and fairly contemporary, and feature both mainstream and genre fiction (e.g. contemporary literature, detective & science fiction), with emphasis on notable writers and literary prize-winners in both prose and poetry.
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