Mind of My Mind
Author: Octavia E. Butler
For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his private breeding stock. But now a young ghetto telepath has found a way to awaken — and rule — her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle as she challenges her creator for her right to free her people…..Read More
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