Clay's Ark by Octavia E. Butler [1984 HARDCOVER] Patternmaster #3

Clay's Ark by Octavia E. Butler [PatternMaster #3]

FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [1984] ST. MARTIN'S PRESS

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Dust jacket has some very mild edge wear; otherwise excellent.  Looks beautiful in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book itself is near mint.   *tiny inked out spot on front endpaper.   Otherwise, like new. 

An innocent familiy, carjacked on a desolate highway, is abducted to a bizarre new world. A world being born in the Californian desert.

They discover Earth has been invaded by an alien microorganism. The deadly entity attacks like a virus, but survivors of the disease genetically bond with it, developing amazing powers, near-immortality, unnatural desires - and a need to spread the contagion and create a secret colony of the transformed. Now the meaning of "survival" changes. For the babies born in the colony are clearly, undeniably, not human...