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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,274
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Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of horrifying depravity. Assault, theft, sexual abuse, slavery, and murder are commonplace. And a zealous, bigoted tyrant has won his way into the White House. Directly opposed is Lauren Olamina, founder of Earthseed - a new faith that teaches "God Is Change". Persecuted for "heathen" beliefs as much as for having a black female leader, Earthseed's followers face a life-and-death struggle to preserve their vision.
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This exciting collection presents two previously unpublished stories by SF legend Octavia E. Butler. A Necessary Being precedes the events of Survivor, Butler's third (famously disowned) installment in her Patternist series, and includes characters from it, focusing exclusively on the Kohn, aliens who build their social hierarchies on the blueness of their fur. In Childfinder, a black woman with the gift of identifying children with latent psychic ability refuses to share her skill with an organization of white telepaths.
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Dawn
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In a world devastated by nuclear war with humanity on the edge of extinction, aliens finally make contact. They rescue those humans they can, keeping most survivors in suspended animation while the aliens begin the slow process of rehabilitating the planet. When Lilith Iyapo is "awakened", she finds that she has been chosen to revive her fellow humans in small groups by first preparing them to meet the utterly terrifying aliens, then training them to survive on the wilderness that the planet has become. But the aliens cannot help humanity without altering it forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Abrupt Conclusion
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Series Hands Down
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imaginative!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great! One quibble with the audiobook editing
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Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Messages
- By khaalidah on 10-07-15
Publisher's Summary
The Patternist is a telepathic race, commanded by the Patternmaster, whose thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. Coransee, son of the ruling Patternmaster, wants the throne and will stop at nothing to get it, including venture into the wild mutant-infested hills to destroy a young apprentice - his equal and his brother.
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- Jordan
- 08-14-16
FINALLY SOMETHING LIVES UP TO WILD SEED!!
Brilliant narrator who wonderfully makes the listener believe that he has intimate knowledge of more than a dozen different characters.
The story itself reminds me of the first book by Octavia Butler that I read, and the reason I'm so into AfroFuturism, Wild Seed. For a while I was worried that Wild Seed was the best story of the genre and that I would never again experience the unadulterated joy of a story of that caliber. I've been exposed to other works by Octavia and other writers and found myself wanting more than the works could offer. This book totally restored my faith.
8 of 9 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-29-18
Not a great narrator
This book is fascinating. Glad I listened. But the narrator was really disappointing. His reading style was very mechanical, and he frequently made errors in pronunciation, emphasis, and voice. Quite disappointing and distracting.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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- Zephyris
- Alberta
- 09-14-15
Meh
Listen to the series in the series order, not the publication order. This book is worth a listen because it finished the story, but as her first published, it lacks the polish of the other three.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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- DeeDee
- 03-03-17
Annoyed
There's no way I can listen to this. The reader's voice is terribly annoying!!!!! Will have to wait until I have time to read it.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful
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- Paula Wills
- 07-15-18
I am running out of Octavia books to read.
Brilliant book! Patternmaster did not disappoint. I have yet to come across an Octavia Butler book I don't like.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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- Brian G. Taylor
- NE Illinois
- 03-10-18
Great 1st outing by Bulter!
A book and a great ending! Butler had more hitting her sleeve then I realized thanks to that great ending!
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- Osaretin Obaseki
- 10-24-19
Wonderful
I loved it!!! This is a masterful conclusion to an epic series. One of the most brilliant series I have ever read.
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- SheilaB
- Sacramento, CA USA
- 08-08-19
Worthy of your time
It started slow but had been recommended. I’m so glad a kept listening. I’m buying the next book now.
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- Kristy O
- 06-19-19
The reader was so awful I can’t listen to this.
I enjoy Octavia Butler books and listened to the first 3 books in this series but this narrator is too grating to continue. Very unhappy about it.
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- Cenia
- 04-12-19
Def recommend but..
Intriguing novel. I would recommend reading "Mind of my Mind" first. There is s substantial amount of information needed in order to understand about the Pattern or the descendants of Mary from this novel "Patternmaster." Thirdly to understand who Doro is and why he is important control freak that beeded to die read "Wild Seed." To understand the Clay Arks disease read Butlers "Clay Ark" novel. Butler was a smart lady to weave interconnected details that expand her science fiction world through all these novels. It is worth your time in reading through all her work.
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- Sandra
- 12-31-16
Her first book?
Published in 1976, I assume it is. Intrigued by her protagonists and their behaviour, I shall now eagerly pursue her subsequent offerings, in chronological order.
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- Svein Olav Nyberg
- 05-08-18
Now you know why Clay's Ark was #3
This fourth story ties the threads from books 1 and 2 about the patternists, and book 3 about the clay arks. It was an enjoyable, but perhaps a tad too short read. Being a non-mutant "mute" myself (like most or all of us), I found myself shifting between wishing Tyree well, and wondering how our "mute" branch of humanity would feel in a world dominated by the twin monstrosities of patternists and clay arks. And in that, I think there lies a potential for at least a fifth book in the series.
The narrator has a great voice - in principle - but he chose landing on the "crocodile voice" of vocal fry for a majority of the time. That works better for action movie trailers. Go up half an octave, man, and drop the fry, and you have a great reading voice!