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MADDADDAM
ATWOOD, MARGARET
Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued
their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is
being fortified against man and giant Pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle,
quasi-human species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. While their reluctant prophet,
Jimmy -- Crake's one-time friend -- recovers from a debilitating fever, it's left to Toby to narrate the Craker
theology, with Crake as Creator. She must also deal with cultural misunderstandings, terrible coffee, and
her jealousy over her lover, Zeb. Meanwhile, Zeb searches for Adam One, founder of the God's
Gardeners, the pacifist green religion from which Zeb broke years ago to lead the MaddAddamites in
active resistance against the destructive CorpSeCorps. Now, under threat of an imminent Painballer
attack, the MaddAddamites must fight back with the aid of their newfound allies, some of whom have four
trotters. At the centre, is the extraordinary story of Zeb's past, which involves a lost brother, a hidden
murder, a bear, and a bizarre act of revenge. Combining adventure, humour, romance, superb
storytelling, and an imagination that is at once dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world,
MaddAddam is vintage Margaret Atwood, and a moving and dramatic conclusion to her internationally
celebrated dystopian trilogy.
FICTION
MCCLELLAND & STEWART
9780771008467
$32.95 HC
AUGUST 2013
1ST PRINTING 40,000 IN CANADA
416 PAGES
THE MAN IN THE EMPTY SUIT
FERRELL, SEAN
Say you're a time traveler and you've already toured the entirety of human history. After a while, the
outside world might lose a little of its luster. That's why this time traveler celebrates his birthday partying
with himself. Every year, he travels to an abandoned hotel in New York City in 2071, the hundredth
anniversary of his birth, and drinks twelve-year-old Scotch (lots of it) with all the other versions of who he
has been and who he will be. Sure, the party is the same year after year, but at least it's one party where
he can really, well, be himself. The year he turns 39, though, the party takes a stressful turn for the worse.
Before he even makes it into the grand ballroom for a drink he encounters the body of his forty-year-old
self, dead of a gunshot wound to the head. As the older versions of himself at the party point out, the
onus is on him to figure out what went wrong--he has one year to stop himself from being murdered, or
they're all goners. As he follows clues that he may or may not have willingly left for himself, he discovers
rampant paranoia and suspicion among his younger selves, and a frightening conspiracy among the
Elders. Most complicated of all is a haunting woman possibly named Lily who turns up at the party this
year, the first person besides himself he's ever seen at the party. For the first time, he has something to
lose. Here's hoping he can save some version of his own life.
MYSTERY
SOHO PRESS
9781616953010
$15.00 TP Original
OCTOBER 2013
320 PAGES