MaddAddam
Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam is the conclusion of her Oryx and Crake trilogy, picking up the lives of a small band of survivors in the aftermath of a man made plague that has wiped out almost all of humanity. Toby and Ren, both former members of the eco religious sect known as God's Gardeners, have stumbled out of the urban ruins and joined Jimmy the Snowman and the gentle, genetically engineered humanoids called the Crakers. They are sheltered for the moment in a guarded compound while Atwood weaves in the long delayed back story of Adam One, Zeb, and the underground bioterror network MaddAddam, which has been quietly resisting the late stage corporate dystopia of the previous books for decades. The novel braids campfire stories, religious origin myths the Crakers are only beginning to invent, and the survivors' constant fear of the violent ex prisoners called Painballers. Atwood writes a humane, formally inventive ending.
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Third in the MaddAddam trilogy. The survivors and the Crakers settle into a fragile camp while Zeb tells Toby the story of his own past, his brother Adam One, and the years before the apocalypse landed.
MaddAddam was written by Margaret Atwood and published in 2013. It is the third book in her MaddAddam trilogy, after Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood. The trilogy is complete.
Yes. MaddAddam is the conclusion of a trilogy and assumes detailed knowledge of the first two books. The series should be read in publication order.
MaddAddam is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
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