![]() ![]() ![]() All this enables Butler to powerfully explore gender and race, slavery and eugenics, community and control, power and independence, love and loss, humanity and identity.Īs with her other novels like Kindred, Dawn, and Parable of the Sower, in this one Butler imagines believable, human characters and convincing and thematically relevant fantastic elements, puts different kinds of people together to see how they succeed (or fail) at making communities, and writes straightforward and potent prose. She is also able to change her shape and to completely become different animals or people, down to the cellular level. ![]() ![]() While Doro kills people to wear their bodies and sees them only as stock to breed, Anyanwu heals people and sees them as potential family members. Octavia Butler's Wild Seed (1980) is a compelling love story between seemingly the only two immortal beings in the world, one essentially but not exclusively male called Doro and one essentially but not exclusively female called Anyanwu. ![]()
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