(Image credit: www.librarything.com)Butler, Octavia E. Mind of My Mind. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977.
Second in the patternist series, this book features the struggle between an immortal and his creations.
Octavia Butler's chronicle of a 4000 year old Nubian and his chosen disciple will take you into a world where flesh is fleeting but the mind is for the millennia. A world where force and compassion, and caprice and justice collide. The world of Mary who will fight her father/lover/master for control of a people whose very existence may depend on her.
"She was like a living creature of fire. Not human. No more human than he was. He had lied to her about that once- lied to calm her when she was a child. And her major weakness, her vulnerable, irreplaceable human body, had made the lie seem true. But that body, like his own series of bodies, was only a mask, a shell. He saw her now as she really was, and she might have been his twin. But, no, she was not his twin. She was a smaller, much younger being. A complete version of him. A mistake that he would not make again."
As Mary learns her true power will she be able to bring others into her pattern of minds to form a unified whole? Or will Doro manage to separate the threads, unraveling their plans and securing his place? A place he's held for 4000 years. Read Mind of My Mind to see who finds freedom in this unfree world.
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