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Wild Seed

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Patternist #1
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From the acclaimed author of the Earthseed series, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together and changing the destiny of the human race.

This deluxe edition includes: 

  • A new cover and package
  • Premium French flaps and newly designed, full-color interior covers
  • High-quality paper with elegant deckled-edges

Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one--until he meets Anyanwu.

Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body, mending injuries and reversing aging. She uses her powers to cure her neighbors and birth entire tribes, surrounding herself with kindred who both fear and respect her. No one poses a true threat to Anyanwu--until she meets Doro.

The moment Doro meets Anyanwu, he covets her; and from the villages of 17th-century Nigeria to 19th-century United States, their courtship becomes a power struggle that echoes through generations, irrevocably changing what it means to be human.

Book Details

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

First Published: July 1980

Pages:

  • Paperback: 320

ISBN:

  • Paperback: 9781538784235

Physical Information:

  • Paperback: 0.8" H x 7.96" L x 5.39" W (0.52 lbs)
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About the Author

Octavia E. Butler


Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was the renowned author of numerous groundbreaking novels including Kindred, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, and a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work, in 1995 she became the first science-fiction writer to win the MacArthur Fellowship. An Afrofuturist pioneer, her dystopian novels explore myriad themes of Black injustice, women's rights, global warming, and human survival, and her work is taught in over two hundred colleges and universities nationwide.

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