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Patternmaster Hardback - 1976
by Butler, Octavia E
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Details
- Title Patternmaster
- Author Butler, Octavia E
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 186
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Doubleday, Garden City
- Publication date 1976T
- Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000133349
- ISBN 9780385121972 / 0385121970
- Weight 1.58 lbs (0.72 kg)
- Size 1.1100 in x 9.1300 in x 6.5700 i
- Category Fiction - Science Fiction
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 76002759
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 1
- Bookseller catalogues Book
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About this book
Patternmaster is Octavia Butler's first published novel. It is the fourth book chronologically in Butler's Patternmaster series. Wild Seed (1980) , Mind of my Mind (1977), and Clay's Ark (1984) follow. Another novel, Survivor (1978), was part of the series, but Butler later disowned the novel and declined to have it reprinted.
Central to the series are Patternists - people with telepathic powers, ruled by a head Patternmaster who can heal and destroy. In Patternmaster, the son of the ruler, Coransee, will stop at nothing to get the throne, even killing his brother. The novel is set in the distant future, and the Patternists are the dominant race, set apart from Clayarks, who are 'diseased' and animalistic, and another mute race that is used as slaves.
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First edition identification
Patternmaster was first published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York in 1976. The original hardcover had light gray cloth, a $5.95 price stamp on the front flat of the dust jacket, and ‘First Edition’ on the copyright page.
