Hooray! In an interview with GalleyCat, Margaret Atwood said she plans to write a third novel to form a trilogy with Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood. That is definitely something to look forward to! In my opinion, you can never have too much post-apocalyptic fiction.
It will also be interesting to see how she moves the story forward in a third novel; Year of the Flood showed the world-changing events of Oryx and Crake from a completely different perspective. It made me want to go back and read the first novel again, because so much more was going on than was immediately apparent.
That aspect of the books reminded me of The Sparrow, a brilliant novel by Mary Doria Russell. It was obvious what had happened to the unfortunate first contact team in that story, until you read the sequel, Children of God, and realize how much even the participants in the events of the first book misunderstood and misread what was happening to them.
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