How long does it take to read Wild Seed?
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler takes about 5 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Patternist series
Previous: Survivor Next: Clay's Ark
About 5 hours 7 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1980. 279 pages, about 76,725 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex--or design. He fears no one--until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu has also died many times. She can absorb bullets and make medicine with a kiss, give birth to tribes, nurture and heal, and savage anyone who threatens those she loves. She fears no one--until she meets Doro. From African jungles to the colonies of America, Doro and Anyanwu weave together a pattern of destiny that not even immortals can imagine.
Subjects: Fiction, Sex role, Women healers, African American women, Gender identity, FICTION / Science Fiction
