While in his many human forms he has been both male and female, young and old, and of all races, he clearly prefers the form of black male closest to his earliest Nubian identity. His long story unfolds in pieces throughout the novels, though
Mind of My Mind (1977) and
Wild Seed (1980) are the most direct treatments of his story. Thus an awareness of and appreciation for racial and sexual differences are at the base of the entire Patternist series; Doro is the powerful masculine hunter, progenitor of a race of superbeings gifted with physical and psychical powers that promise to take mankind to the next level of evolutionary development. Unbounded by time or space, Doro seeks both victims and progeny on two continents. His descendants carry these quests into the future and even outer space.
As different as each of the novels is in setting and plot, the basic tenets of "the Pattern" remain unchanged. The descendants of Doro have unique psionic gifts that are often too powerful for their possessors to control. In childhood Doro's far-flung progeny are "latents," gifted in telepathic or healing powers, for instance, but unable to channel their powers adequately.
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