Review: THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD – Margaret Atwood

Oryx & Crake (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003) was perhaps Atwood’s most overtly science-fiction novel. A scathing satire on the perils of genetic engineering and unchecked corporate power, it predicted a dystopian future of ecological and societal collapse. The Year of the Flood revisits this bleak vision for our world and examines it from a slightly different angle.

Familiarisation with Oryx & Crake will certainly help you get your bearings more quickly and is certainly recommended but not required to fully appreciate this incredible novel. It is enough to know that it is set in the mid – late 21st Century in North America after a genetically engineered plague has wiped out most of humanity.