With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity-and its present. Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman's recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a boy named Jimmy loved an elusive, damaged girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake. But now Snowman is alone, and as we learn...

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In Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived. While many are familiar with Margaret Atwood's fiction--including...

The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren,...

When an agribusiness facility producing genetically engineered food releases a deadly toxin into the environment, seventeen-year-old Tempest Torres becomes entangled in a war she never knew existed.

Sometida a los estragos una terrible plaga, la humanidad afronta una dura y azarosa huida hacia delante. En esta primera entrega de la "trilogía de MADDADDAM"--que se completa con El año del Diluvio y Maddaddam--, Margaret Atwood nos invita nuevamente a adentrarnos en un mundo futuro tan verosímil comom inquietante, elemento esencial del universo narrativo de la célebre autora de El cuento de la criada. Conocido como Jimmy antes de que el planeta...

Antipodes is a unique work of fiction, set in present-day post-apocalyptic Australia. Aimed at young adults who are disillusioned with our world, and concerned for the ecological future of our planet, Antipodes focuses on the values our society lacks-sustainability, inclusion, community and friendship. Cam Mackintosh is in his last year of a science degree at Melbourne University when he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime, the chance to...

The Lazarus Protocol: A Biopunk Dystopian Thriller In a world where death is a choice, immortality comes at a price. From the masterful storytelling of S.B. Fates comes "The Lazarus Protocol," a thought-provoking and emotionally charged biopunk thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Set in a dystopian future where cutting-edge biotechnology has enabled the wealthy elite to conquer death itself, this gripping novel explores the dark...

As the author of over forty works-including over a dozen novels and over a dozen books of poetry as well as collections of short stories and short fictions, works of literary criticism, and collections of her essays and reviews-Margaret Atwood is indisputably Canada's best-known contemporary author. Edited by J. Brooks Bouson, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the Canadian writer.--Publisher description...