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.

About Octavia E. Butler

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

Goodreads review by Nicholas on July 26, 2024

4/5 stars Holy shit... Quick reminder: There are two ways to read Octavia E. Butler's Patternist series: the order in which it was published--Patternmaster (1976), Mind of My Mind (1977), Survivor (1978, disowned and never put back into publication), Wild Seed (1980), and Clay's Ark (1984); or the chr......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on March 05, 2016

Clay's Ark: An alien disease transforms a portion of humanity Originally published at Fantasy Literature Clay’s Ark (1984) was written last in Octavia Butler’s 4-book PATTERNIST series, but comes third in chronology. It takes place after Wild Seed (1980) and Mind of My Mind (1977), in the post-apocaly......more

Quotes

PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER'S NOVELS

"Brilliant, endlessly rich...pairs well with 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

"An internationally acclaimed science fiction writer whose evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human."—New York Times

"If we're talking must-read authors like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, the one-and-only Octavia Butler needs be a part of the conversation. The groundbreaking sci-fi and speculative fiction author was a master of spinning imaginative tales that introduced you to both the possibilities -- and dangers -- of the human race, all while offering lessons on tribalism, race, gender, and sexuality."—O, The Oprah Magazine

"A revolutionary voice in her lifetime, Butler has only become more popular and influential . . . A generation of younger writers cite her as an influence, from Jemisin and Tochi Onyebuchi to Marlon James and Nnedi Okarafor . . .She is now praised as a visionary who anticipated many of the issues in the news today, from the coronavirus to climate change to the election of President Donald Trump."—Associated Press

"More than any novel I've ever read, Octavia Butler's 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

"In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Octavia Butler's 'Parable' books may be unmatched."—New Yorker (on Parableof the Sower)

"Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction-period . . . A master storyteller with a voice that cradles and captivates, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty and ignorance, and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of human nature."—Washington Post Book World

"Haunting . . . apocalyptic . . . compelling."—Essence

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