Whether one calls Atwood’s trilogy science fiction or speculative fiction, as she prefers, her engrossing style makes either label seem irrelevant. It was a delight to get reacquainted with characters such as Jimmy the Snowman, Zeb and Toby, humans who have survived the Waterless Flood, a pandemic that has afflicted the world. At the beginning of the book Atwood includes two little synopses of the previous volumes, helping the reader chart the complicated genealogies of the related plots and characters. MaddAddam is, consequently, the most complex of her three novels about the devastation of life on Earth and the surprising rebirth that follows. Margaret Atwood’s new novel, MaddAddam, concludes the trilogy she began in 2003 with Oryx and Crake and ties up the many plots and themes that continued through The Year of the Flood, published in 2009.
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