THE PATTERNIST SERIES: PATTERNMASTER, MIND OF MY MIND, SURVIVOR, WILD SEED, CLAY'S ARK
Published by Sphere Books Limited / Sidgwick & Jackson / Arrow Books, Ltd. 1978-1985, London, 1978
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- Used
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA
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First Impressions, with Patternmaster and Clay's Ark being paperback originals. Five octavo volumes (17.75cm-20.5cm); original pictorial wrappers and publisher's navy blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjackets; [4],5-176; xviii,[1]-168,[6]; [vi],[1]-185,[1]; [viii],[3],4-248; [vi],[3],4-201,[1]pp. Patternmaster is a fresh, Fine copy. The three hardcover titles are Near Fine in Near Fine, unclipped dustjackets, with Mind of My Mind showing just a hint of foxing to the text edges, and Survivor and Wild Seed each showing a few tapped corners. Clay's Ark is spine-sunned, edgeworn, with a few faint vertical creases to spine and some subtle tanning to text edges.An attractive set of this cornerstone work by by Butler (1947-2006), hailed by many as the "Mother of Afrofuturism." Butler began crafting the Patternist narrative when she first began writing science-fiction at the age of 12; it evolved into a sweeping, intricately-crafted five book series spanning generations, which "establish structures and themes that loom large across her oeuvre - the pliability of the human body, the cruelty of the mind, the endurance of the soul - while highlighting her trademark fascination with power: its seductivity, and its misuse.the Patternists first arose as the unintended consequence of a millennia-long breeding project administered by Doro, an immortal East African vampire, with the periodic assistance of his companion and lover, the shapeshifter Anyanwu (later called Emma). Here, Tate's observation about an African diasporic subject "bred to be superhuman" is rendered disturbingly literal. In the Patternist books a secret competitor to white hegemony is revealed to exist alongside modernity's actually existing history of intergenerational slavery and forced reproduction, an alternate history that is both a deviation from and a nightmarish replication of white supremacy. But despite its status as a competitor, the results of Doro's experiments liberate neither humanity in general nor black pepople in particular; instead, they culminate in an even more totalizing domination by an even more untouchably powerful elite, a state of affairs to which any resistance seems utterly impossible" (Canavan, Gerry. "Bred to Be Superhuman: Comic Books and Afrofuturism in Octavia Butler's Patternist Series." Paradoxa, Vol.25 (2013), p.253-254). An extremely influential series which has become difficult to complete; for a variety of reasons, Butler disavowed her third novel, Survivor, and did not allow it to be reprinted since 1981. Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4-102-104.…
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- Title
- THE PATTERNIST SERIES: PATTERNMASTER, MIND OF MY MIND, SURVIVOR, WILD SEED, CLAY'S ARK
- Author
- Butler, Octavia
- Publisher
- Sphere Books Limited / Sidgwick & Jackson / Arrow Books, Ltd. 1978-1985, London
- Publication year
- 1978
- Edition
- First UK Editions.
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- Science Fiction & Fantasy
Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA
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