Wild Seed

Octavia E. Butler

SFBC, 2005 - African American women - 245 pages

Doro is an immortal, body-stealing spirit who seeks and breeds outcasts with special abilities. He meets Anyanwu, an immortal, shape-shifting, healer woman who has the abilities he breeds for. She submits to him but refuses to be controlled by him.

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Review: Wild Seed (Patternmaster #1)

User Review  - Mollie - Goodreads

As always, it is a Butler novel. Intimate, powerfully-written female characters. Straight forward, almost simple sentences. Not stupid or writing down to anyone, but natural. I like this book and most ...

Review: Wild Seed (Patternmaster #1)

User Review  - Yune - Goodreads

Re-read. This was the first book by Octavia Butler I encountered and it remains my favorite; and while often such decisions are made mostly on an emotional basis, Butler is, after all, a MacArthur ...

Bibliographic information

• Title: Wild Seed; Volume 21 of SFBC 50th anniversary collection
• Author: Octavia E. Butler
• Publisher: SFBC, 2005
• ISBN: 0739456881, 9780739456880
• Length: 245 pages