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Octavia Butler: Visionary Fiction (2021)

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Octavia's Wild Seed

I think I had more fun writing wild seed than I had writing anything else. It's about these immortal Africans who end up coming to the new world and they have these different qualities and abilities that are really out of this world. The two immortals are named Anjou and Doro. Wild Seed was the next book Octavia wrote after Kindred as a return to her patternist series and in some ways as a gift to herself.

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