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Galaxy reviewer Spider Robinson faulted Patternmaster for "leav[ing] unanswered every moral question it raises -- or rather answer[ing] them unsatisfactorily," but praised Butler's characterizations and skill as a storyteller."

Butler, Octavia. Patternmaster. Warner: New York. 1976. Print.

Reviews from front of book:

"Butler's books are exceptional. . . . Butler is a realist, writing the most detailed social criticism and creating some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre . . . the hard edge of cruelty, violence, and domination is described in stark detail . . . real women caught in impossible situation. --Village Voice

"Butler's spare, vivid prose style invites comparison with the likes of Kate Wilhelm and Ursula Le Guin." --Kirkus Reviews

"A new Octavia Butler novel is an exciting event. . . . She is one of those rare authors who pay serious attention to the way human beings actually work together and against each other, and she does so with extraordinary plausibility." --Locus

"Butler sets the imagination free, blending the real and the possible." --United Press International

"Butler's exploration of people is clear-headed and brutally unsentimental. . . . If you haven't read Butler, you don't yet understand how rich the possibilities of science fiction can be." --The Magazine of Fantasy & Fiction

"Butler's strength is her ability to create complete and believable characters." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Butler is among the best of contemporary SF writers, blessed with a mind capable of conceiving complicated futuristic situations that shed considerable light on our current affairs. Her prose is lean and literate, her ideas expansive and elegant." --Houston Post

"Her books are disturbing, unsettling . . . her visions are strange, hypnotic distortions of our own uncomfortable world. . . . Butler's African-American feminist perspective is unique, and uniquely suited to reshape the boundaries of the genre." --LA Style

Back of book:

"Butler's literary craftsmanship is superb." --Washington Post Book World

A brilliant talent unique in speculative fiction, multiple Hugo and Nebula winner Octavia Butler is the creator of extraordinary novels that combine the cultural vision of Alice Walker and Terry McMillan with the cosmic scope of Ursula K. Le Guin and Doris Lessing,. Powerful, thought-provoking, and filled with white-knuckle suspense, this is one of her classic novels...

PATTERNMASTER

The combined mind-force of a telepathic race, Patternist thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. For the strongest mind commands the entrire 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.

"A lively futurescape . . . a literature of survival." --Ms.

"Butler brings Toni Morrison to mind." --Publishers Weekly

"Reminiscent of zelazny at his best." --Science Fiction Review Monthly