Wild seed

science fiction

248 pages

English language

Published Sept. 11, 1980 by Sidgwick and Jackson.

ISBN:
978-0-283-98592-8
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OCLC Number:
15989620

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Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex--or design. He fears no one--until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu has also died many times. She can absorb bullets and make medicine with a kiss, give birth to tribes, nurture and heal, and savage anyone who threatens those she loves. She fears no one--until she meets Doro. From African jungles to the colonies of America, Doro and Anyanwu weave together a pattern of destiny that not even immortals can imagine.

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reviewed Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler (Patternmaster, #1)

Review of 'Wild seed' on 'LibraryThing'

This was one of the most disturbing, uncomfortable books I have ever read, because it goes so deep into dehumanisation by those who wield power. And yet I finished it in a week because the key characters and the strange world Butler set up were so compelling.

Subjects

  • Fiction in English