Product Description: 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.
Amazing Work Butler was an amzing author and I look forward to reading the follow up, Mind of My Mind.
Exquisite---Awful Publisher Edition 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 black 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.
Will Someone PLEASE Make a Movie Outta This Great Story 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.
Remarkable Writer of Speculative Fiction 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.
Stories The stories that I remember the most is the incest one. It was a ok read.
Anything Goes Trivia
Megaton Man
Tailipoe
Trevor
