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  • Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Atwood
    / Novels

    In Oryx and Crake (2003), Atwood describes a plague-induced apocalypse in the near future through the observations and flashbacks of a protagonist who is possibly the event’s sole survivor. Minor characters from that book retell the dystopian tale from their own perspectives in The Year of…

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    In Oryx and Crake (2003), Atwood describes a plague-induced apocalypse in the near future through the observations and flashbacks of a protagonist who is possibly the event’s sole survivor. Minor characters from that book retell the dystopian tale from their own perspectives in The Year of…

    Read More