![]() ![]() ![]() The seemingly Immortal 4000-year-old body-snatcher Doro, "the Founder" (see Identity Transfer) has long been engaged on a breeding programme designed to produce a Secret Master cadre of superior humans whose Psi Powers, including Telekinesis and Telepathy, mark the new race (see Eugenics Genetic Engineering). Wild Seed, which begins in 1690, demonstrates the very considerable strength of Butler's imagination in being a prequel manifestly more interesting than much of the material it adumbrates. The order of publication has little to do with internal chronology indeed, the first volume published stands last in a sequence that runs from the late seventeenth century into the Far Future. ![]() (1947-2006) US author who began publishing sf with "Crossover" in Clarion (anth 1971) edited by Robin Scott Wilson, but who made no real impact on the sf field until the appearance of the Patternist series: Patternmaster ( 1976), Mind of My Mind ( 1977), Survivor ( 1978), Wild Seed ( 1980) and Clay's Ark ( 1984), all but Survivor assembled as Seed to Harvest (omni 2007). ![]()
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