Reading the book got me thinking about mind of my mind, by octavia butler. It always bothered me that Mary kills Doro and regards Anyanwu’s suicide as not even regretable. It’s totally in character, well written, and entirely consistent. I would have felt very similar had Doro succeeded in doing Mary in. I just think that Mary had the possibility of keeping Doro’s experience around, and on a leash, and it’s just such a colossal waste (seeing what being on the other end of the daddy stick did to Doro would have been interesting, but I’m not sure such reversals are really consistent with the themes I’ve read Butler exploring). It is unsurprising, given this arrogance, that in the later patternist novels, there is extreme technological reversion (if it ain’t psychic, it ain’t worth the time). Just random musings<\/p>\n
Also, I know I’ve asked this before, but who (that has read both the Oankali and Patternist novels) thinks that it is clear whether the two series take place in the same universe? I would claim it’s not clear. The Clay’s Ark virus reminds me a great deal of the Oankali, and the Oankali said they left stuff like that lying around on planets where merging was not appropriate. But at the same time, the holocaust deal (nuke based, iirc), and the very human (non psychic, non-ark) nature of Lilith and others makes it all seem quite unlikely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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