![]() Throughout the series, we see the applications of the telepathy. This is a transcript from the video series Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature. In Patternist, we see a dying leader and two powerful young telepaths fighting for future control of the Pattern, leaving the reader to wonder if the new Patternmaster will eventually become as corrupted by power as was the old. The novel plays out a kind of dark future. And the Pattern gives them a great advantage in the ongoing war against the Clayarks, a different mutation of humans. ![]() Those belonging to the Pattern-the telepaths-basically enslave the ‘mutes’, who are without this sense. The first book Patternist takes us to a distant future, probably on Earth, in which millions of people are connected together through telepathic links in a Pattern, run by the Patternmaster. (Image: metamorworks/Shutterstock) Patternist In the Patternist series, human telepathy in the future is the setting for exploring possibilities of utopia or dystopia. Octavia Butler employs multiple narrative perspectives to fully explore the nuances of a society that begins as a utopian dream but ends up leading to dark-although always somewhat hopeful-outcomes. ![]() ![]() , University of Connecticut The Patternist series, published in the ’70s and ’80s, consists of five novels set in a world in which human telepathy is common. ![]()
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