Clay’s Ark
Octavia E. Butler
213 pages, Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 0446603708
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Language: English
Publish: 849427200000
African AmericanDystopiaFantasyFictionHorrorNovelsPost ApocalypticScience FictionScience Fiction FantasySpeculative Fiction
An innocent familiy, carjacked on a desolate highway, is abducted to a bizarre new world. A world being born in the Californian desert.
They discover Earth has been invaded by an alien microorganism. The deadly entity attacks like a virus, but survivors of the disease genetically bond with it, developing amazing powers, near-immortality, unnatural desires – and a need to spread the contagion and create a secret colony of the transformed. Now the meaning of “survival” changes. For the babies born in the colony are clearly, undeniably, not human…