Clay's Ark

This is the third of the Patternist Series, and the last written. It doesn't have much connection to the first two books. Rather, it creates the genesis of the clayark creature in the fourth book. The clayarks are the progeny of humans that have been infected with a symbiotic parasite from Proxima Centauri, brought back to earth by Eli, the survivor of the interstellar ship Clay's Ark. The book is about the struggle between the parasite's desire to reproduce and spread versus the infected humans' attempt to control it. It's an interesting story, and as always, well written. However, I found it difficult to read. I was always waiting for the connection to the Patternists, which only came in the form of Clay Dana, who has a brief appearance in the previous novel. It's his discovery of faster than light space travel via telekinesis that is the propulsion method of Clay's Ark. And we don't find out about it until about halfway through the book. It was only after beginning the fourth book that I realized the necessity of this one.

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