![]() ![]() Butler tackles the issues of possession, slavery and gender in a startlingly honest way. Wild Seed is more than just a tale of migration and different cultures. And as a wild seed, one that he cannot fully understand and therefore control, Anyanwu must use her inherent survival skills in order to protect her descendants and remain free in every sense. He is trying to breed a new people with special powers and has been traveling the world collecting specimen. But soon she realises that Doro has an agenda and will do anything to succeed. He succeeds in persuading Anyanwu to leave her village in Africa and travel back to his settlement in the New World as his wife and she agrees in exchange for his promise that he won’t touch her family. But Doro is different from her ancient, sly, dangerous, a parasitic spirit who kills to survive. When she meets Doro, an equally enigmatic character who is drawn to her special powers, she is afraid but curious. ![]() Wild Seed is the story of Anyanwu, chameleon-like, long-lived and with the power to manipulate and change her body, absorbing pain and healing herself and others. It’s not an easy thing for any writer to do. Such a deceptively small book, and yet Butler’s Wild Seed tackles some very troubling subjects in a surprisingly accessible manner. Butler is a writer I have long been meaning to read but of whom I was a little too much in awe. ‘You have me.’īlack, feminist and the first science fiction writer to be a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Octavia E. ![]() ‘I am here,’ she said in the same quiet voice. ![]()
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