I wrote Wild Seed as a reward for having written Kindred. Kindred was depressing. I had to go to places that I didn’t enjoy going, in my own mind, and in history. Also, my characters in Kindred couldn’t really win. I couldn’t change history and make them win. The closest they could come to winning was to survive. They lived. They didn’t live whole, but they lived. When I finished Kindred, I needed to do something that was fun. Wild Seed was fun. Which is odd because it was also one of the most difficult novels I’ve ever written. But I thoroughly enjoyed writing it.
