MaddAddam

MaddAddam is the final book in Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy, which began with Oryx and Crake and continued with The Year of the Flood. It brings together characters from both earlier novels.

Some months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has killed most of humanity, Toby and Ren have saved their friend Amanda from the cruel Painballers and brought her back to the MaddAddamite cob house. The group is reinforcing the place against human attackers and the giant Pigoons alike. With them are the Crakers, a gentle, nearly human species engineered by the brilliant Crake, who is now dead. Their reluctant prophet, Jimmy, once Crake's friend, is laid up with a debilitating fever, so Toby takes on the job of telling the Crakers their own theology, in which Crake is the Creator. She also copes with cultural misunderstandings, awful coffee and jealousy over her lover, Zeb.

Zeb, meanwhile, is searching for Adam One, founder of the God's Gardeners, the pacifist green religion he left years ago to lead the MaddAddamites in active resistance to the destructive CorpSeCorps. With a Painballer attack looming, the MaddAddamites have to fight back, helped by new allies, some of whom walk on four trotters.

Running through the book is the story of Zeb's past, which involves a lost brother, a hidden murder, a bear and a bizarre act of revenge. The novel mixes adventure, humor and romance, and pairs an inventive imagination with a world that feels recognizable.