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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780446676977
ISBN number: 0446676977
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: April 01, 2001
Publishing house: Grand Central Publishing
Sale Popularity Level: 79916
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Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflexor design. He fears no oneuntil he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is a shapeshifter who can absorb bullets and heal with a kiss and savage anyone who threatens her. She fears no oneuntil she meets Doro. Together they weave a pattern of destiny unimaginable to mortals.
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This was the very first book I ever read by Octavia Butler - I remember staying up to 6 in the morning to finish it. The story is fantastic and I love that unlike many other science fiction and fantasy authors, she remembers that there is more race in the world.
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Butler was an amzing author and I look forward to reading the follow up, Mind of My Mind.
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Butler is an exquisite writer.
BUT, this publisher's edition is filled with errors---not just little periods, but repeated dialogue lines, and then half repeated lines mixed with other repeated lines, misspellings---son, and soon---HUGE difference in Butler's world. This edition sucks. Buy the book, just not this one.I usually endure publisher typos without issue--but this book is so messed up, I have to object. If I weren't short on time and money I'd buy another edition.
The story is amazing and I want to read it and not stop. Kindred I read in three days. This book is fantasy--but it is about people--not just "black" people, but people. I detest Toni Morrison because I feel she has this huge I am a grey woman chip on her shoulder. Yuck. Butler has no such chip--inside the book she is compared to Morrison. An unfair insult to Butler. Buy this book. It is about the human condition and slavery---we are all slaves to something or someone. I am actually using her book as an example of HOW TO WRITE FANTASY in my MFA Thesis Project in Creative Writing. Superb.
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This book is awesome. My favorite Octavia Butler book. I finally bought the hardcover after re-reading to death my old paperback.
What makes this book so good, is simple - the story. Doro, a man/spirit who can not die and Anyanwu, a woman who can not be killed, in a struggle that mixes sci-fi, with African slave trade, to early America, with an Ike and Tina Tuner type love story.
Unmatched story that is ripe for cinematic gold.
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Octavia Butler has a gift for story-telling. Anyone interested in speculative fiction should give "Wild Seed" a read. I promise, you won't put it down. Her characters are engaging, and even provocative. Creative, clever, and well-written, this book will remain in my library until it becomes ragged with use.
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