Clays Ark, Octavia E. Butler
Clays Ark, Octavia E. Butler
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Clay's Ark

Author: Octavia E. Butler

Narrator: Robin Miles

Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/30/2023


Synopsis

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.

Author Bio

Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, one of very few African American women in the field. She won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards and in 1995 was the first science fiction writer ever to receive the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant.

Reviews

Goodreads review by BJ on December 03, 2024

I’ve now read all of Octavia Butler’s published fiction. She is one of the few authors I’ve read in full. Clay’s Ark is certainly the work of a writer at the top of her game—fast moving, thoughtful, morally complex, and absolutely brutal, even by Butler’s violently pessimistic standards. Like all fi......more

Goodreads review by J.L. on March 08, 2021

"You’re bright,” Lupe said to her softly. “Very bright, but stubborn. You think you can choose your realities. You can’t." The near future American dystopia in Octavia Butler's Clay's Ark is recognizable, but more from Butler's Earthseed Series than from anything in the first two installments of the......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on July 24, 2021

4.5 Stars Rounded up. Alright. I am three books down of Octavia Butler’s now. And I am enthralled with her writing! I am also three books into this series now - and I absolutely love it! Bleak, desperate, depressing but so utterly UTTERLY readable! Clay’s Ark is the third installment in the Patternist......more