The Patternist Series (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Octavia E. Butler
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—alternate history
- Time of Work: About 1700 to 2300
- Setting: Earth and the planet Kohn
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Alternate history
- Subjects: Immortality, Extrasensory perception or powers, Other worlds, Earth, Evolution, Mutations or mutants
- Locales: Earth, Fictional planets
The Plot
The five novels of the Patternist series were not written and published in the order of their fictional chronology. Chronologically, the tale begins with Wild Seed, which covers the period from 1700 b.c.e. to c.e. 1830. It presents Doro, the oldest known of all the patternist paranormal humans. Born a Nubian in the upper Nile region of Africa around 1700 b.c.e., he died at the age of thirteen in a transition, the equivalent of a vastly accelerated adolescence. He can live only by taking the body of another nearby living human, which, used up, is left dead, to be...
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