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Margaret atwood dystopian trilogy5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Other suspicious franchises include the beverage chain Happicuppaand the beauty salon AnooYoo. More often than not, the victims’ bodies, usually minus some important organs, are ground up with sundry other ingredients to make the addictive SecretBurgers. The police have been replaced by HelthWyzer’s private security force, the CorpSeCorps, and its storm troopers keep the peace by simply doing away with undesirables and anyone who opposes the corporation’s activities. Its top researchers and their families live in fortified compounds that separate them from the vast underclass and from pleebrat gangs such as Asian Fusion and the Tex-Mexes. That said, in a prefatory note, Atwood does summarize “The MaddAddam Trilogy: The Story So Far.” In those first two novels, we were introduced to a world where the HelthWyzer Corporation acts as the government. This is the concluding volume in a “dystopian trilogy” - a vision of global disaster in the not too distant future - and while it can certainly be enjoyed without knowing the earlier books, why would anyone start here? You wouldn’t watch “Return of the Jedi” as your first “Star Wars” movie, would you? Go out and buy all three installments and begin at the beginning. ![]() If you haven’t already read Margaret Atwood’s “Oryx and Crake” (2003) and “The Year of the Flood” (2009), you shouldn’t read “MaddAddam,” even though it is wonderfully entertaining and just about everything you could want in a novel. ![]()
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