Both novels depict newly infected main characters who experience that the virus changes them and ultimately empowers them in certain ways. The remaining women settles the planet, and many years later, which constitutes the present of the novel, the Company sends an expedition to try out a vaccine. In Butler’s novel the virus is brought to Earth by a returning astronaut, who tries to keep the virus from spreading in Griffith’s the virus infects people who try to colonize another planet and kills the men. In this paper, I will examine how two women science-fiction writers envision humans living with an extraterrestrial virus in novels written in the 1980s and 1990s: African American Octavia Butler’s Clay’s Ark (1984) and British-American Nicola Griffith’s Ammonite (1992).
and has reinforced local, national, and global inequalities and injustices based on lack of means, solidarity, and democracy. Although this virus can infect all human beings, this pandemic has made glaringly obvious differences concerning age, health, gender, social status, ethnic backgrounds, professions, access to technology, etc. It has meant changes in how we conduct our everyday lives, at least temporarily. 2022 (English) Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed) Abstract Īfter almost two years with SARS-CoV-2, causing COVID-19, we all have experience of living with a virus on a global scale.
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