User:Renee6434/Octavia E. Butler

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Starting in 1974, Butler worked on a series of novels that would later be collected as the Patternist series, which depicts the transformation of humanity into three genetic groups: the dominant Patternists, humans who have been bred with heightened telepathic powers and are bound to the Patternmaster via a psionic chain; their enemies the Clayarks, disease-mutated animal-like superhumans; and the Mutes, ordinary humans bonded to the Patternists. Butler owned an Olivetti Studio 46 typewriter. Notice the only red key. This is the tab key. The typewriter can be described as a manual typewriter, not an electric one. The manufacturer, Olivetti, was based in Italy, however, this particular design was made in Spain.