The complete Patternist series-the acclaimed science fiction epic of a world transformed by a secret race of telepaths and their devastating rise to power.
Butler tells the classic story that began her legendary career: a mythic tale of the transformation of civilization..
In these four novels, award-winning author Octavia E.
He succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, splitting the human race down the middle and establishing a new world order dominated by the most manipulative minds on Earth.
Over the next three centuries, Doro mounts a colossal selective breeding project, attempting to create a master race of telepaths.
Together they will change the world.
The other is Doro, a malevolent despot who has mastered the power of stealing the bodies of others when his wears out.
Anyanwu is a healer, a three-hundred-year-old woman who uses her wisdom to help those around her.
In the late seventeenth century, two immortals meet in an African forest.
The complete Patternist series-the acclaimed science fiction epic of a world transformed by a secret race of telepaths and their devastating rise to power
