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008			092411s2009 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2009005901
020			_a9780385528771
050	0	0	_aPR9199.3.A8 _bY43 2009
082	0	0	_aFIC ATW
100	1		_aAtwood, Margaret _d(, 1939-)
245	1	4	_aThe year of the flood _b: a novel _c/ Margaret Atwood
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday _c, 2009.
300			_a434 p. _c; 25 cm.
520			_aThe 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, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers . . . Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away . . .
650		0	_aEnvironmental disasters _v--Fiction
650		0	_aRegression (Civilization) _v--Fiction
655		7	_aDystopias
655		7	_aScience fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c230442 _d230442