The MaddAddam Trilogy

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Authors: Margaret Atwood

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FICTION

The Edible Woman

Surfacing

Lady Oracle

Dancing Girls

Life Before Man

Bodily Harm

Murder in the Dark

Bluebeard’s Egg

The Handmaid’s Tale

Cat’s Eye

Wilderness Tips

Good Bones

The Robber Bride

Alias Grace

The Blind Assassin

Good Bones and Simple Murders

The Penelopiad

The Tent

Moral Disorder

POETRY

Double Persephone

The Circle Game

The Animals in That Country

The Journals of Susanna Moodie

Procedures for Underground

Power Politics

You Are Happy

Selected Poems: 1965–1975

Two-Headed Poems

True Stories

Interlunar

Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976–1986

Morning in the Burned House

Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965–1995

The Door

NONFICTION

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

Days of the Rebels, 1815–1840

Second Words

Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature

Two Solicitudes: Conversations
(with Victor-Lévy Beaulieu)

Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982–2004

Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing

Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983–2005

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

FOR CHILDREN

Up in the Tree

Anna’s Pet
(with Joyce Barkhouse)

For the Birds

Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut

Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes

Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda

Wandering Wenda

VINTAGE CANADA E-OMNIBUS, 2013

Copyright © 2013 O. W. Toad Ltd.

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Oryx and Crake
Published in Canada by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, in 2009. Originally published in hardcover by McClelland & Stewart in 2003. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2003 O. W. Toad Ltd.
e-ISBN: 9780307400840

The Year of the Flood
Published in Canada by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, in 2010. Originally published in hardcover by McClelland & Stewart in 2009. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2009 O. W. Toad Ltd.
e-ISBN: 9780307398925

MaddAddam
Originally published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, in 2013. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2013 O. W. Toad Ltd.
e-ISBN: 9780771008979

E-omnibus edition published in Canada by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, in 2013.

Vintage Canada with colophon is a registered trademark.

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These are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

The MaddAddam Trilogy e-ISBN: 9780345808752

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Contents

Oryx and Crake

The Year of the Flood

MaddAddam

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THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD
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All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

Published in Canada by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, in 2009. Originally published in hardcover in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, in 2003, and in trade paperback by Emblem Editions, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart Ltd., in 2005. Distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Vintage Canada and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House of Canada Limited.

www.randomhouse.ca

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Atwood, Margaret, 1939–
      Oryx and Crake / Margaret Atwood.

eISBN: 978-0-307-40084-0

      I. Title.
PS8501.t86o79 2009      c813′.54      c2009-900380-5

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For my family

I could perhaps like others have astonished you
with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose
to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest
manner and style; because my principal design
was to inform you, and not to amuse you.

Jonathan Swift,
Gulliver’s Travels

Was there no safety? No learning by heart of
the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter,
but all was miracle and leaping from the
pinnacle of a tower into the air?

Virginia Woolf,
To the Lighthouse

1
~
Mango
   ~

Snowman wakes before dawn. He lies unmoving, listening to the tide coming in, wave after wave sloshing over the various barricades, wish-wash, wish-wash, the rhythm of heartbeat. He would so like to believe he is still asleep.

On the eastern horizon there’s a greyish haze, lit now with a rosy, deadly glow. Strange how that colour still seems tender. The offshore towers stand out in dark silhouette against it, rising improbably out of the pink and pale blue of the lagoon. The shrieks of the birds that nest out there and the distant ocean grinding against the ersatz reefs of rusted car parts and jumbled bricks and assorted rubble sound almost like holiday traffic.

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