The Big Books of Fall

Patternist Series

4 primary works • 6 total works
(aka Patternmaster or Seed to Harvest)

This is a reading order based on internal chronology, not publication order.

These novels detail a secret history continuing from the ancient Egyptian period to the far future. They involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.

In order of publication:

Patternmaster (1976)
Mind of My Mind (19…

Book 1

Wild Seed
by
4.20 · 41574 Ratings · 4022 Reviews · published 1980 · 59 editions
Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes,…

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    Book 2

    Mind of My Mind
    by
    4.19     · 16595 Ratings · 1310 Reviews · published 1977 · 2 editions
    For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds …

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    Book 3

    Clay's Ark
    by
    3.84     · 12877 Ratings · 1244 Reviews · published 1984 · 38 editions
    An innocent familiy, carjacked on a desolate highw…

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    Survivor
    by
    3.80     · 1459 Ratings · 205 Reviews · published 1978 · 23 editions
    Know Thy Enemy

    They fled from an Earth ravaged by p…

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    Book 4

    Patternmaster
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    4.02     · 11512 Ratings · 990 Reviews · published 1976 · 2 editions
    The combined mind-force of a telepathic race, Patt…

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    Book 1-4

    Seed to Harvest
    by
    4.39     · 6844 Ratings · 517 Reviews · published 2007 · 18 editions
    In her classic Patternist series, multiple Hugo an…

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