The combined mind-force of a telepathic race, patternist thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. For the strongest mind commands the entire pattern and all within. Now the son of the patternmaster craves this ultimate power, h...The combined mind-force of a telepathic race, patternist thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. For the strongest mind commands the entire pattern and all within. Now the son of the patternmaster craves this ultimate power, he has murdered or enslaved every threat to his ambition--except one.