Their stories weave beneath the holy teachings and saintly-songs of Adam One to create a truly apocalyptic vision, a world that harnesses Atwood's wit, dystopic imagination and sharp insight. The other is Toby, an ex-counter-girl at SecretBurger ('Because we all love a Secret'), a natural cynic and source of extensive homeopathic knowledge she knows her aminatas from her puffballs. Her story is one part of our gateway into this uniquely constructed world. After a rip in her biofilm she is placed in solitary confinement until they can guarantee she is without disease. Ren is a trapeze dancer at Scales and Tails, and can work a plank just as well. And, if the Waterless Flood does indeed arrive, as predicted by the Gardeners, will there even be a future to contemplate? The times, and species, are changing at a rapid rate, and with loyalites as thin as environmental stability, the future is a dangerous place. But, this is a world where gene-splicing is the norm where lions and lambs have become Liobams and pigs have human DNA. They wear beige cloth-sacks, cultivate mushrooms, harvest honey and curse each other by shouting: Pig-Eater! Their community is only tolerated by the CorpSeCorps, the ruling power, because they are not perceived as threatening. An epic of biblical proportions, The Year of the Flood is a feast of imagination and a journey to the end of the world.Īdam One is the leader of the God's Gardeners, a religious group devoted to living under the command of the natural world.
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