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Story Time: A Reflection on Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy

February 9, 2015 by Dani

Trilogies are odd. They’re not always big enough to span the sort of time and adventure that longer series do, but they’re split into parts for a reason, right? So sometimes in reading trilogies I find myself wanting the whole scoop all at once. I want to have the bird’s-eye-view so I know what I’m dealing with. I suppose you could say I’m a greedy reader. THUS: Drew and I finished the MaddAddam Trilogy at the same time, so while his excellent […]

Categories: Features • Tags: Dani Lencioni, Faith, Features, Fiction, Future, History, Hope, MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Religion, Storytelling, Technology, The Year of the Flood

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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book #1)

August 5, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: Sometime not too far into the future, humanity has been decimated (perhaps obliterated) by a super-plague. A single survivor, known once as Jimmy and now as Snowman, lives with a tribe of genetically modified proto-humans and ekes out a tenuous existence as a prophet of his friend Crake and the woman they both loved, Oryx.  As he embarks on a treacherous journey for supplies, the backstory of how humanity failed – and the parts Crake, Oryx, and […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature, Sci-Fi • Tags: BookClub, Dystopia, Fiction, Literature, MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Sci-Fi

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