The Patternist Series
Wild Seed
Book One of the Series (Grand Central Publishing, paperback, April 1980)
Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex — or design. He fears no one — until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is a shapeshifter who can absorb bullets and heal with a kiss…and savage anyone who threatens those she loves. She fears no one — until she meets Doro. From African jungles to the colonies of America, Doro and Anyanwu weave together a pattern of destiny that not even immortals can imagine.
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Mind of My Mind
Book Two of the series (Grand Central Publishing, mass market paperback, August 1994)
For four thousand years, an immortal has spread the seeds of an evolutionary master race, using the downtrodden of the underclass as his private breeding stock. But now a young telepath has found the way to awaken—and rule—her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle from L.A. mansions to South Central slums, as she challenges her creator for the right to free her people.… And enslave the Earth.
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Clay's Ark
Book Three of the series(Aspect, mass market paperback, December 1996)
Asa Elias Doyle and her companions encounter an alien life form so destructive that they exile themselves to the desert to avoid contaminating others, but their compulsion to infect others is overwhelming and, in a desperate plea for help, kidnap a doctor and his two daughters.
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Patternmaster
Book Four of the Series (Aspect, mass market paperback, May 1995)
The combined mind-force of a telepathic race, Patternist thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. For the strongest mind commands the entire Pattern and all within it. Now the son of the Patternmaster craves this ultimate power. He has murdered or enslaved every threat to his ambition — except one. In the wild, mutant-infested hills, a young apprentice must be hunted down and destroyed because he is the tyrant’s equal…and the Patternmaster’s other son.
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Seed to Harvest
(Grand Central Publishing, paperback, January 2007)
In her classic Patternist series, multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler established the themes of identity and transformation that echo throughout her distinguished career. Now collected for the first time in one volume, these four novels take readers on a wondrous odyssey from a mythic, primordial past to a fantastic far future. In ancient Africa, a female demigod of nurture and fertility mates with a powerful, destructive male entity. Together they birth a race of madmen, visionaries, and psychics who cling to civilization’s margins and back alleys for millennia, coming together in a telepathic Pattern just as Earth is consumed by a cosmic invasion. Now these new beings—no longer merely human—will battle to rule the transfigured world…
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Survivor
PART OF THE pATTERNIST SERIES (sIGNET, May 1979)
They fled from an Earth ravaged by plague and violence, seeking to fulfill their holy mission—to discover a new home for humanity. But instead of landing in a peace-filled paradise, Earth’s Missionaries find themselves caught between two warring civilizations—the Garkohn and the Tehkohn. And only one of the people from Earth, a young girl and “converted” Missionary named Alanna, has the proper survival training to see through the lies of their Garkohn “hosts,” who extend the hand of friendship to the humans only to enslave them. Alanna alone can understand the necessity of becoming one with the Tehkohn “enemy.” And, perhaps, she can find a way to release the Missionaries from the deadly bondage into which they have complacently fallen. Yet even if she succeeds, will Alanna merely be saving them for a still more inescapable doom . . . ?
Out of print but can be found used on Amazon
