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Clay's Ark

by Octavia E Butler
September 1, 2020 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781538751503
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Description

A powerful story of survival in unprecedented times, from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower.


In an alternate America marked by volatile class warfare, Blake Maslin is traveling with his teenage twin daughters when their car is ambushed. Their attackers appear sickly yet possess inhuman strength, and they transport Blake's family to an isolated compound. There, the three captives discover that the compound's residents have a highly contagious alien disease that has mutated their DNA to make them powerful, dangerous, and compelled to infect others. If Blake and his daughters do not escape, they will be infected with a virus that will either kill them outright or transform them into outcasts whose very existence is a threat to the world around them.

In the following hours, Blake and his daughters each must make a vital choice: risk everything to escape and warn the rest of the world, or accept their new reality -- as well as the uncertain fate of the human race.

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Fiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic Fiction / Science Fiction / Alien Contact Fiction / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy

About this Author

was a renowned writer who received a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. She was the author of several award-winning novels including Parable of the Sower, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the far future. Sales of her books have increased enormously since her death as the issues she addressed in her Afrofuturistic, feminist novels and short fiction have only become more relevant. She passed away on February 24, 2006.]]>

ISBN: 9781538751503
Format: Trade paperback
Series: Patternist
Pages: 240
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2020-09-01

Reviews

PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER'S NOVELS]]>

1984 or The Handmaid's Tale."--John Green, New York Times(on Parable of the Sower)]]>

Wild Seed is a book that shifted my life . . . It is as epic, as game-changing, as moving and brilliant as any science fiction novel ever written."--Viola Davis]]>

New York Times]]>

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Wild Seed examines power, what it means to wield it responsibly and what it means to resist it when it is wielded capriciously."--Rion Amilcar Scott, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize-winning author of Insurrections]]>

New Yorker (on Parableof the Sower)]]>

Washington Post Book World]]>

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