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      Clay's Ark

      by Octavia E. Butler
      Published
      Jun 1984
      Main Genre
      Science Fiction Sci-Fi
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      208
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      Patternist Book 3

      About This Book

      EARTH'S FIRST SPACESHIP HAS RETURNED... WITH THE DEATH OF THE ENTIRE PLANET AS ITS CARGO

      The one crew member left alive is infected with a terrifying alien plague--and, fight it as he may, he is compelled by that plague to go out and infect others.

      And so, in the desert of the American Southwest, a colony is growing of people who are not quite human--and who soon will be unstoppable.

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      Book 3
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      Speculative Fiction

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      Alternative History Science Fiction

      Characters & Occupations

      Aliens

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