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I wonder if Margaret Atwood stockpiles canned goods or hoards heirloom seeds or has an underground bomb shelter in her backyard. She has me fairly convinced that her near-future dystopias could become realities any day now and that we need to take precautions! (Kidding, sort of). She takes current events (corporatocracy, genetically modified food, bio-warfare) and makes a plausible but entirely creepy future. This is the companion book to Oryx and Crake...I wish I had read it more recently, but
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I love Margaret Atwood generally and dystopic near-future earth is literary kryptonite to me, so I was pretty much guaranteed to love The Year of the Flood. The story, weaving, sermons, hymns and multiple points of view into a narrative masterwork, is one of her best.
It's not a direct sequel, but read Oryx and Crake first.
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