false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255634845m/6080337.jpg 6080337 12 <b>The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. <i>The Year of the Flood</i> is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. </b> The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life—has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers... Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away... By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, <i>The Year of the Flood</i> is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive. 6257025 book 22 9 2009 The Year of the Flood: A Novel total:852|5:218|4:406|3:172|2:38|1:18| 852 3324 3025 335 5 7 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 07:10:08 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 15:27:02 -0700 2009 Oryx and Crake. Though I believe Flood would stand alone pretty well, I think you'd be doing yourself a disservice if you read it first.

I really loved everything about this book. I liked it more than Oryx and Crake, but at the same time I believe it make...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Oct 29 12:07:38 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 12:14:07 -0700 2009
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This newest Atwood is by no means a disappointment to the devoted fan, or to the casual reader. If you've read Oryx and Crake, this book will fill in some gaps and provide an actual ending to the story of Jimmy (Snowman...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 02:51:30 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 02:52:21 -0700 2009
Summary: A plague has wiped out the majority of the world and the God's Gardeners cult had been preparing for the end-times (the Waterless Flood) all along. Two women, who were members of God's Gardeners have survived the plague. One, Ren, because s...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 12:44:56 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 12:47:47 -0700 2009 Oryx and Crake; though The Year of the Flood is not so much a sequel to it as a companion novel, taking place as it does in more or less the same timeframe. It’s not essential to have read the older book to comprehend the n...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 12:02:14 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 12:02:14 -0700 2009 THE CAPSIZING ARK
Nisi Shawl

Review of The Year of the Flood
By Margaret Atwood
Nan A. Talese

Is it possible to prevent a planet-scale ecocatastrophe? What would the consequences of preventing such an event be? Would those consequences be acceptable? Iconic Canad...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 19:32:48 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 19:34:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false true Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 11:19:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 11:19:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 11:16:59 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 12:19:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Oct 11 07:36:32 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 07:44:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 08:22:56 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 08:38:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Oct 04 16:06:39 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 16:06:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Oct 03 07:12:46 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 08:26:23 -0700 2009 Oryx and Crake, Atwood imbues The Year of the Flood with her deep, dramatic vision of the devastation wrought by our destruction of Earth. Most critics bought into this richly envisioned cautionary tale, "part Hieronymus Bosch, part A Clockwork Orange" (New York Times), while acknowl...more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Sep 28 08:53:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 09:02:05 -0700 2009 Oryx and Crake nicely. Though Oryx and Crake involved a mass extinction of the human race, it felt kind of cold and detached. The Year of the Flood gives us the story of the masses in the pleebs who are widely disregarded b...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 21:53:55 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 22:04:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 13:25:39 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 13:34:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 09:17:08 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 09:18:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 5 false false Sat May 23 17:16:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 17:27:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 16:09:59 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 18:50:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 11:14:25 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 11:20:08 -0700 2009 Oryx and Crake but some of the same characters from it are mentioned, and the post-apocalypse plot line is followed. (I'm going to read that one again, followed by this one, when my copy comes in.)

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