![]() ![]() Wild Seed is an engrossing novel, but it’s not fast-paced instead, taking its time to develop slowly and thoroughly throughout, spanning several centuries in its timeline - I’m excited to be able to read the sequels and see how the foundation she’s set in this first book builds up. With Anyanwu being just as powerful as Doro (if not more so), and struggling for freedom, the idea of feminism and female power is also explored through their volatile relationship. I like how Butler was able to explore concepts like power structures and how they work within Doro’s community, pairing it with issues like race and having it play along with how power structures work in the “outside” world where black people are made slaves. While Doro sees them in terms of power and what they’re able to do, they are humanized through Anyanwu’s eyes in fact, Butler uses Doro and Anyanwu as foils for each other to provide different perspectives on an issue. Sometimes, it’s very weak and slight, but if they’re matched with others with the same power, it can grow into a powerful ability. Certain people are born with powers, like telepathy or telekenesis. Butler does an amazing job in handling the idea of a powerful man playing god with people who have certain abilities and trying to breed abilities that he likes. This is an amazing science fiction novel and I’m so happy I was finally able to start this series. When they meet, Doro is used to being a leader and being obeyed, but Anyanwu is used to making her own rules, so they clash heads and start a century-long battle - Anyanwu for freedom and Doro for obedience. Anyanwu, on the other hand, is an immortal because she is able to understand what is going on in her body at a cellular level and make changes to change or heal herself. Doro is an immortal able to take people’s bodies for himself, and in fact needing to from time to time in order to rejuvenate himself. ![]() The two main characters are Doro and Anyanwu. I have heard of Octavia Butler and how amazing her books her, but I’ve never gotten around to picking up a book of hers, so I was super excited when I saw that Andrew owned Wild Seed and he whole-heartedly recommended that I read it. This book is recommended for readers of science fiction. The reader will be caught up in their struggle as they each attempt to build a world that will survive. It is a classic battle of good vs evil, yet each of these individuals is forced to work with the other as there is no one else like them in the universe. It has an interesting premise and there are three other novels that follow this start in the series. This is an early novel of Octavia Butler's work. Who will win? Strength and cruelty or kindness and love? These two unite in what will be a contest of wills that lasts for centuries. Anyanwu is a shape-shifter and while she can be cruel if it means survival, her first instinct is always to help those around her and to build a family. He must constantly kill in order to survive, taking the bodies of those he murders. He has fathered hundreds of children and uses them as social experiments as he tries to duplicate his own powers. Doro is determined to bend others to his will always. He makes himself known to her and soon has taken her for his wife and plans for them to move on to America.īut there is a fundamental difference between the two. He changes course and soon finds Anyanwu, an African woman who has, like him, lived lifetimes. As he walks away, he picks up a vibration that there is another individual nearby who it would be worthwhile to check out. When he goes to check on an African village he set up many years before, he is dismayed but not surprised to see that it has disappeared, its inhabitants either killed or taken for slaves. ![]() He has lived for hundreds of years and has created settlements all over the world. ![]()
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