The Patternist series (also known as the Patternmaster series or Seed to Harvest) is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail...

a better story. She drafted what would later become the basis for her Patternist novels. Until then happily ignorant of the obstacles that a black female...

published in 1980 as the fourth book of the Patternist series, it is the earliest book in the chronology of the Patternist world. The other books in the series...

from the fact that the religions of the ancient near east are related, patternists vary widely in their views about how closely related these religions...

and is the second novel in the Patternist series. This second novel in the series recounts the story of how the Patternist society originated. The novel...

into the dominant Patternists, their enemies the "diseased" and animalistic Clayarks, and the enslaved human mutes. The Patternists, bred for intelligence...

writer Octavia E. Butler. First published in 1978 as part of Butler's "Patternist series", Survivor is the only one of Butler's early novels not to be reprinted...

is also the name given to a major character in the Octavia E. Butler's Patternist series. Anyanwu is also the name attributed to the "Spirit Face" (who...

who designs a selective breeding program that spans centuries in the Patternist series of novels by Octavia E. Butler DoRo Productions, a film company...

American science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. The last published of her Patternist series, the novel serves as a prequel that accounts for the arrival of...