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Margaret Atwood’s "The Year of the Flood" explores a dystopian world after a devastating environmental catastrophe. Adam One, leader of the God’s Gardeners—a movement blending science and religion—predicts the upheaval, but the predicted disaster arrives, devastating human civilization. Two women, Ren, a trapeze performer trapped in a luxurious nightclub, and Toby, a God’s Gardener confined to a spa, survive the chaos and must navigate a landscape populated by gene‑spliced animals and a fractured social order. The novel examines how people adapt to rapidly changing ecosystems, the collapse of the social compact, and the emergence of new forms of life.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Science Fiction/Hard Science Fiction
Authors: Margaret Atwood
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