CLAY'S ARK

by Butler, Octavia E

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New York: St Martin's, (1984.) . First printing. . Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a bright and attractive dustjacket, with the flaps pasted down. . A title in the Patternmaster series, a story of alien encounter, set in the near future in the California desert. Dustjacket art by Lee Wade.

Book summary

In this bleak work of near-future SF, author Octavia Butler continues to explore the difficult moral compromises made by people who simply want to survive. CLAY’S ARK takes place some years after MIND OF MY MIND, and although it doesn’t share any characters from that book, plot elements from both CLAY’S ARK and MIND OF MY MIND establish the far-future setting of the novel PATTERNMASTER. Rane Maslin; her sister Keira, who’s terminally ill with leukemia; and their father, Blake, are on a road trip to visit the girls’ grandparents in Arizona when they’re kidnapped by a strange group, all infected with a mysterious disease that causes permanent biological and genetic alterations. Their leader is Eli, formerly the geologist on the first starship, Clay’s Ark; he returned with the disease, an alien microorganism that compels its carriers to pass it on to others. According to Eli, once the microorganism incubates within the Maslins, not only will they be unable to escape...they may no longer want to.