Series
Patternist
Octavia E. Butler · 5 novels · 1 novelette · 1976–2014
The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague. A profile of Butler in Black Women in America notes that the themes of the series include "racial and gender-based animosity, the ethical implications of biological engineering, the question of what it means to be human, ethical and unethical uses of power, and how the assumption of power changes people."
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+1 newer work not in this orderPublished in one order and set in another: the story spans centuries, and the books arrived out of sequence. This route runs from the earliest point of the story to the far future it builds toward.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
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Patternist at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1970s3
- 1980s2
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s1
Shape
5 novels · 1 novelette
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictiongenetic engineeringour worldfar futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 6 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Patternmasterdarkest
- Survivorbrightest · most intense
- Wild Seedcalmest