![]() The MaddAddam trilogy, according to Quill and Quire 2: In a holistic way, it is not surprising that the world Atwood created in this trilogy reflects one of corporate greed, dystopian values, genetic cloning, and other human manipulations of nature–a mirror of the world we made ourselves, most particularly where we could be heading. This certainly must have inspired her imagination when bringing the natural world into the intricate human environments about which she writes.Īt the beginning of the trilogy, in Oryx and Crake, the reader can tell by descriptions of the world that global warming is taking place due to rising seas, harshly pounding large waves, incredible heat, and so on. ![]() I think it’s interesting that, like Jeff VanderMeer, discussed in Part I of this series, Atwood has many close relatives who are scientists. Global warming occurs prominently in Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy (which she calls “speculative fiction”)– Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013)–which describe a post-apocalyptic Earth set in the near future. Her genre-busting books range from literary to speculative. ![]() Popular author Margaret Atwood called climate change the “everything change.” Atwood’s novels are generally about the human experience, at times notably the female’s, but she also writes about this everything change. ![]()
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