Clay's Ark
ISBN:
9780441110896 (0441110894)
Publish date: June 1st 1985
Publisher: Ace
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Cultural,
African American,
Feminism,
Speculative Fiction,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
Series: Patternmaster (#3)
This was the most disturbing books by Octavia E. Butler that I have read yet, further inspiring my desire to have a conversation with her to find out just how that brain worked. Her concepts are fascinating, even when as disturbing as this one.Perhaps it was the violence and rape of young children t...
This is Butler's version of an invasion from another planet. It is, of course, a symbiotic microbe. Its carriers have holed up, hoping to postpone a complete takeover, but this dark and violent future is about to become darker.