Four other novels by Butler are directly related to Wild Seed. They are her Patternmaster series, and include in the order of their publication Patternmaster (1976), which is set in the most distant future of Butler's history and depicts the maturation of the psipowered human species and its imminent ascendancy in controlling Earth.

The second is Mind of My Mind (1977), set in the late twentieth century and relating the end of the life of the seemingly unkillable Doro, and the end of Anyanwu as a major character, superseded by the emergence of Mary who becomes the first "patternmaster," a human of psi powers strong enough to create a psychic web that can hold all other psi- powered people in a very willing but also unescapable captivity.

The third is Survivor (1978), about a human colony on another planet, having left behind an Earth on which "Clayarks" and psi-powered...