Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
279 pages
Published 1980
Read from July 4 to July 8
Rating: ★★★★ out of 5
Not as devastating as the Parable novels, Wild Seed is an achievement nonetheless: an intelligent, engaging, and above all entertaining sci-fi novel, equal parts X-Men and African Diaspora, touching on race, gender, mortality, what it means to be human -- all the usual Serious Science Fiction stuff, but done well. I didn't quite buy it as a love story, so the ending felt unearned to me; perhaps the fact that it was written as a prequel installment of an ongoing series limited the ways it could have ended.
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