Clay's Ark
In a violent near-future, Asa Elias Doyle and her companions encounter an alien life form so heinous and destructive, they exile themselves in the desert so as not to contaminate other humans. To resist the compulsion to infect others is mental agony, nut to succumb is to relinquish humanity and...
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In a violent near-future, Asa Elias Doyle and her companions encounter an alien life form so heinous and destructive, they exile themselves in the desert so as not to contaminate other humans. To resist the compulsion to infect others is mental agony, nut to succumb is to relinquish humanity and free will. Desperate, they kidnap a doctor and his two daughters as they cross the wasteland--and endanger the world.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780446603706 (0446603708)
ASIN: 446603708
Publish date: December 1996
Publisher: Warner Books
Pages no: 213
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.
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