Patternmaster
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Patternmaster is a science fiction novel by American author Octavia E. Butler. Patternmaster, the first book to be published but the last in the series' internal chronology, depicts a distant future w
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Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards
Patternmaster
…says that "Butler has yet to get a handle on how best to deliver the subtextual social commentary that would give the series its depth." In 1992, Orson Scott Card rejects Patternmaster as ‘‘more magic romance than hard science fiction," but also praises her work for making the characters realistic and "touching…
Card in 2008
Card (right) signing autographs at New York Comic Con in 2008
Card in 2007