Toby is holed up in a former spa, using her Gardener skills - gardening, foraging, using herbal medicines and, if necessary, a gun - to survive in the wilderness. Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 50 books, including The Blind Assassin, for which she received the 2000 Man Booker Prize. And, she reminds us, scientists are capable of terrible, Earth-changing errors.
Meanwhile, the balance between the human and natural worlds has gone awry, with "great dead zones" in major bodies of water and many animals passing into extinction.Ītwood is close enough to recent headlines and sophisticated scientific research to make her invented universe believable. These scientists are working toward the ultimate goal - immortality. In The Year of the Flood Atwood imagines a country run by a corporate elite and policed by a corporate security force (CorpsSeCorps) trained in "Internal Rendition." Genetic engineers have invented hybrid creatures, like the liobam, a lion-lamb mix, and recreational meds such as BlyssPluss, a sex drug that promises multiple orgasms with no medical risk. Oryx and Crake, published in 2003, at the outbreak of the SARS epidemic, is narrated by a survivor of a biological disaster. She has an uncanny ability to spin timely, very plausible and sometimes even terrifyingly prescient tales.ġ985's landmark The Handmaid's Tale posited a theocracy that controls women's childbearing. The Year of the Flood, her 63rd book, is her third work of speculative fiction. Margaret Atwood has been writing original and provocative works of fiction for nearly a half-century.
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