Promotional Information

* '[An] unholy cross between Roots and Wuthering Heights' Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels * An astonishingly rich and powerful story of love and conflict * 'Warm, involving, sympathetic...rings true as only the best stories can' Analog * 'Eerily fascinating' Michael Bishop

About the Author

Octavia Butler (1947-2006) was born in California. Her novels included the other books in the acclaimed Patternist series (Wild Seed is a prequel to the events that unfold later), Patternmaster, Mind of my Mind, Survivor and Clay's Ark, and the Xenogenesis series, Dawn, Adulthood Rites and Imago.