Clay's Ark

Short Review: This is a one off book from the series. It feels different from the rest (but I guess all the book in this series feel different from the rest). It is a meditation on slavery like all others, but this time it is an alien control story where the alien is a microbe and we become enslaved to our changed biology. Of the books that I have read by Butler, this is the closest to a horror story, although it is not quite that. It feels a bit like Cormac McCarthy's The Road, but with a bit more hope. Once I read the fourth book in the series I understood how this one fit into the series, but mostly it feels like a stand alone novel.


The full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/clays-ark/