Wild Seed, Octavia E. Butler
Wild Seed, Octavia E. Butler
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Wild Seed

Author: Octavia E. Butler

Narrator: Robin Miles

Unabridged: 11 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/05/2021


Synopsis

DDoro 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 seventeenth-century Nigeria to nineteenth-century United States, their courtship becomes a power struggle that echoes through generations, irrevocably changing what it means to be human.

About Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, one of very few African American women in the field. She won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards and in 1995 was the first science fiction writer ever to receive the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on February 06, 2023

This is the worst enemies to lovers I've read in a while.../s My feelings for this book were on a rollercoaster. My hate for Doro was so strong that I wanted to DNF this book. I probably would have if I hadn't already read and loved so many of her books. By the third part, I couldn't put it down. I wo......more

Goodreads review by Tim on December 10, 2022

It was something of a shock to read Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed right after having read and loved her Kindred novel. Kindred, of course, is a time travel story, and, except for the time travel bit, it is realistic. On the other hand, Wild Seed is a fantasy. Wild Seed keeps the real world at the edges......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on October 16, 2020

As close to a perfect book as I can imagine. There’s almost nothing that one could do to improve Butler’s prose, pacing, or characterization. She never gives you an excuse to not turn the page . . . which is why I read Wild Seed in a single sitting. The moral issues Butler addresses make for fascina......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on September 26, 2023

Octavia Butler just does not miss for me! As a speculative historical novel, Wild Seed is such an interesting take on personhood, slavery, eugenics, gender, and the morality of different kinds of sexual relationships. She's always interested in power, oppression, gender, and sexuality- this time in......more

Goodreads review by Zen on June 05, 2007

I really like what I've read by Octavia Butler so far and I wish I could give this at least three stars, but I can't because I hate Doro with a passionate fiery hatred and I wish he would die. I do not care if he is secretly a brain-hopping alien parasite and so thinks differently and that makes it......more