- Mass Market Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Aspect (May 1 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0446362816
- ISBN-13: 978-0446362818
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 100 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,413,681 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Patternist is a telepathic race, commanded by the Patternmaster, whose thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. Coransee, son of the ruling Patternmaster, wants the throne and will stop at nothing to get it, including venture into the wild mutant-infested hills to destroy a young apprentice--his equal and his brother. Previously out of print.
Ingram
A telepathic race is ruled by the strong mind of the Patternmaster, but his ruthless son craves the ultimate power of the position and has murdered everyone who stands in his way except a final victim--his younger brother. Reprint. PW.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A Good Read,
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This review is from: Patternmaster (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the first book that I've read by Octavia Butler. It was an good read--worthwhile science fiction--but I felt that it was promising more than it eventually doled out--it seemed too short. However, I understand that this book is part of a series set in the same future world, so no doubt she explores the world further in her other novels.I like her portrayal of the characters, but I could never decide if I *liked* them or not. I liked her description of the world but I couldn't decide who (if anybody) I was supposed to be rooting for... _Patternmaster_ is promising, but I hope it isn't Butler at her best, because it doesn't quite make it. Yet the story grabbed me enough that I know that I will certainly be looking for more Butler books to read in order to compare them.
5.0 out of 5 stars
beautiful and spare struggle for power,
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Perhaps not her best, but I enjoyed this novel and have re-read it several times. The writing is lean and elegant, so carefully written that it can be perused many times with profit. Her notions of human speciation - and her merging with the themes of the mutated Clayarks - are masterfully covered and expanded, as are her notions of the power of the mind. The battle at the center of the novel - the passage of power over a new mass mind of mutants - is taut and frightening, even as she must explain the unusual powers that are being wielded. Once again, her characters are full, first-rate creations that live on in the readers' mind afterword.
3.0 out of 5 stars
A must buy to continue the series,
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Unlike some other reviewers, I wasn't too disappointed as to teh lack of a centrally dominant female character (Though this does seem to be unlike Butler's trend). Though the book is slow and moves you around as quickly as a TV movie of the week, its worth reading to see how the Patternists style of life transforms the world within which they live.
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