Wild Seed
1980 • 306 pages

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Doro is an immortal, body-stealing spirit who seeks and breeds outcasts with special abilities. He meets Anyanwu, an immortal, shape-shifting, healer woman who has the abilities he breeds for. She submits to him but refuses to be controlled by him.


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#1 in Patternist

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Well, that was somber
breeding your kids like livestock
just faithful meat sacks.

October 28, 2015

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November 24, 2013

This is definitely a good book with an interesting conceit, just not quite my wheelhouse. I'll probably pick up the next one eventually.

June 4, 2019

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