- American Science fiction, Telepathy, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
The Patternist series, originally published from 1977-1984, details a secret history continuing into from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.
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- Author
- Octavia E. Butler
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 784
- Publisher
- Warner Books, Grand Central Publishing, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781453271773
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An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. [Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]: Octavia E Butler (1947–2006) > I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler's Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I'd never heard of her – nor have a great many other readers, I suspect. For many years, Butler was the sole African-American woman novelist in science fiction. Kindred tells the wrenching and unforgettable story of a young black
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