![]() ![]() He was a stranger, a fine man taller than most and broader at the shoulders. She looked up as though becoming aware of him for the first time. how to properly name characters, how to keep the reader intrigued) as well as of good speculative writing (how abeyance, implication, and literalism may work together to produce fantastical realities that are nevertheless believable). Butler The intruder finally moved onto the narrow path to approach her openlynow that he had had enough of spying on her. ![]() ![]() Lynn praising Butler's writing as "spare and sure, and even in moments of great tension she never loses control over her pacing or over her sense of story." In his survey of Butler's work, critic Burton Raffel singles out Wild Seed as an example of Butler's "major fictive talent", calling the book's prose "precise and tautly cadence," "forceful because it is focused" and "fictively superbly effective because it is in each and every detail true to the character's lives." In his 2001 book How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy, famed science-fiction writer Orson Scott Card used passages from Wild Seed's opening paragraphs to illustrate principles of good fiction writing (e.g. The novel received many positive reviews, especially for its style, with the Washington Post's Elizabeth A. At the heart of 'Wild Seed' is the enigmatic relationship between two powerful, and seemingly immortal characters: Doro, a sort of energy being who transfers from one host body to another, killing his. This story begins in 1690, and spans Africa and America. ![]() The fourth book in Butler's Patternist series, Wild Seed chronicles the origin of the Patternist world. 'Wild Seed' is one of a series of superb science fiction novels by Octavia E. First edition of the fourth book in the Patternist series. ![]()
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