Metro Detroit author Kenya Moss-Dyme has released Seed, a speculative horror thriller that imagines a future in which reproductive control has become a lucrative industry.
The novel explores the consequences of turning human reproduction into a commercial product, raising questions about consent, power and the ownership of people’s bodies.
At the centre of the story is a society where Black men are treated as genetic commodities rather than citizens. Wealthy clients are offered access to a system designed to produce custom-made mixed-race children.
The story follows Stori Deringer, who enters the Leopold Women’s Designer Clinic with the intention of exposing its operations from within. Her mission places her at the heart of a wider fight against a business built on racial commodification and reproductive exploitation.
Seed examines reproductive control and racial commodification
Moss-Dyme, who is based in Metro Detroit, uses horror to examine how oppression might be repackaged as personal choice and sold as a luxury service.
The book’s central premise also considers the danger of allowing governments, corporations or wealthy individuals to determine who can reproduce, how children should be created and which traits are valued.
Seed is the latest release from an author whose work spans psychological thrillers, horror and dark speculative fiction. Its dystopian setting combines a suspense-driven plot with themes of bodily autonomy, racial inequality and the commercialisation of reproduction.
