Seed to Harvest

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Seed to Harvest (2007, Grand Central Publishing)

784 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2007 by Grand Central Publishing.

ISBN:
978-0-446-69890-0
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OCLC Number:
77495051

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You start with the origins of a post-human tele-kinetic society, jumping forwards through its history in the second book, interrupted in the third by the arrival of a super-evolved inerstellar contagion which turns those it infects into a new and virulent species intent on infecting and converting all life it encounters. The last book is set in the far future as the two groups - alien hybrids and post-humans - struggle for supremacy.

As with all of Butler's work, I was acutely aware of her position as a pioneer, the first black woman to break through in a genre dominated by white men. For me she is a teacher as well as a storyteller. But her stories are confronting. There is murder, there is slavery, there is patriarchy, and these disturbing traits are not defeated in a feelgood happy-ever-after resolution. That is not the reality of a black woman in …