Just before the plague, the club was wrecked by Painballers – dehumanized prisoners of the Corps who have ruthlessly eliminated the other combatants in the Painball arena. Meanwhile, young Ren is locked inside the quarantine room of Scales and Tails, the strip club where she’s been working. Knowing nothing about Snowman and the Crakers, she believes she is hallucinating. One day she sees a procession of naked people in the distance, headed by a ragged, bearded man. Violating Gardener codes, she shoots one of the pigoons that have been attacking her kitchen garden. Toby, armed with an archaic rifle, is holed up in the AnooYoo Spa, watching for other survivors – especially Zeb, the streetwise ex-Gardener whom she secretly loves. The story begins in the present, in Gardener Year Twenty-five – the year of the Waterless Flood, as the Gardeners call the plague. Its leaders, the Adams and the Eves, teach the convergence of Nature and Scripture, the love of all creatures, the dangers of technology, the wickedness of the Corps, the avoidance of violence, and the tending of vegetables and bees on pleebland slum rooftops. The story follows the God’s Gardeners, a green religion founded by Adam One. The Year of the Flood takes place during the same years as Oryx and Crake, but is set in the pleeblands outside Compound walls.
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