Mind of my mind

Format:

Book

Title:

Mind of my mind

Author:

Butler, Octavia E. author

ISBN:

9780446361880

Edition:

Warner books edition.

Publication:

New York, NY : Warner Books, [1994]

Physical Description:

217 pages ; 18 cm

General Note:

Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1977.

Part of Butler's Patternist series--Cf. Wikipedia.

Summary:

"For four thousand years, an immortal has spread the seeds of an evolutionary master race, using the downtrodden of the underclass as his private breeding stock. But now a young ghetto telepath has found the way to awaken-- and rule-- her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle from L.A. mansions to South Central slums, as she challenges her creator for the right to free her people ... And enslave the Earth."--Publisher description

Subject(s):

Telepathy in literature.

Human-alien encounters -- Fiction.

Genre:

Science fiction.

Fiction.

Holds:

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Summary

A young woman harnesses the power of a viral mutation and challenges the ruthless man who controls her, in this brilliantly provocative novel from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower.

Mary is a treacherous experiment. Her creator, an immortal named Doro, has molded the human race for generations, seeking out those with unusual talents like telepathy and breeding them into a new subrace of humans who obey his every command. The result is Mary: a young black woman living on the rough outskirts of Los Angeles in the 1970s, who has no idea how much power she will soon wield.

Doro knows he must handle Mary carefully or risk her ending like his previous experiments: dead, either by her own hand or Doro's. What he doesn't suspect is that Mary's maturing telepathic abilities may soon rival his own power. By linking telepaths with a viral pattern, she will create the potential to break free of his control once and for all-and shift the course of humanity.

Author Notes

Science-fiction writer and novelist Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. She earned as Associate of Arts degree from Pasadena City College in 1968 and later attended California State University and the University of California.

Her first novel, Patternmaster, was the first in a series about a society run by a group of telepaths who are mentally linked to one another. She explored the topics of race, poverty, politics, religion, and human nature in her works. She won a Hugo Award in 1984 for her short story Speech Sounds and a Hugo Award and Nebula Award in 1985 for her novella Bloodchild. She received a MacArthur Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The award pays $295,000 over a five-year period to creative people who push the boundaries of their fields. She died in Lake Forest Park, Washington on February 24, 2006 at the age of 58.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

The first chapter in a history that Butler has already taken up at a much later stage in Patternmaster (1976). Mind of My Mind begins with Doro, a ruthless mutant as old as the pyramids who has spent the last 4,000 years trying to breed a race in his own image. The culminating experiment is his daughter Mary. But, to Doro's astonishment, Mary's first instinct on attaining her full powers is to begin building a mental community--a Pattern--out of the wretched thousands of Doro's haft-telepathic failures and partial successes. Despite some ragged moments, Butler is clearly on to a promising vein--something like Zenna Henderson's ""People"" stories without their saccharine silliness. There's a lot of intrinsic energy in the Pattern idea, and one wants to see where this erratic, gifted storyteller will pick it up next. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.