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Patternmaster
by Octavia E Butler
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used - fine/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385121970
- ISBN 13
- 9780385121972
- Seller
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San Diego, California, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, January 1976. First Edition stated. Hardcover . Used - fine/Near fine. “First Edition†stated. Signed by author on title page. Fine with faint remainder spray on bottom edge of text block, in Near Fine, unclipped dust jacket with trivial shelf wear and a bit of toning to verso.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- La Playa Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67161
- Title
- Patternmaster
- Author
- Octavia E Butler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition stated
- ISBN 10
- 0385121970
- ISBN 13
- 9780385121972
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- January 1976
- Pages
- 186
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