In the Pattern
How to Survive the End of the World
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Octavia Butler's Patternist Series
Cleese, Arc contains some extremely violent sequences. In a way, Octavia Butler is dealing in some of her most direct language with violence trauma and depression. We wanted to contextualize the series because we know that when people go to Octavia Butler's work, the books that people tend to read earliest are often kindred on the Xenogenesis trilogy.
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