Atwood, Margaret

A series of essays explores essential truths about the modern world and the author's personal relationship with the science fiction genre, in a volume complemented by key reviews and her three unpublished Ellmann Lectures.

Bringing together characters from Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against man and giant Pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasihuman species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. Combining adventure, humor, romance, superb storytelling, and an imagination that is at once dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world, MaddAddam is vintage Margaret Atwood, and a moving and dramatic conclusion to her internationally celebrated dystopian trilogy.

Reviews the complexities of human relationships and bring to life the characters.

Part detective novel and part psychological thriller, this is the story of a talented woman artist who searches for her missing father on a remote island. Her companions are her lover and another young couple. All are captivated by the isolated setting. But soon a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just below the surface, and conflict and dangerous choices become apparent.

When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived.