The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood

A novel set in a near future, where the world is ruled by the corporations and their security corps - CorpSeCorps.  There are dissidents called God's Gardeners who live as 'green' a life as possible, and while they have no answers, they do ask a few questions.  Then we have the pleeblands - the equivalent of our 'sink estates'.

This is the same place and time as 'Oryx and Crake' - but from a different point of view.  Most of humanity is wiped out by a plague, and The Year of the Flood takes place just before and after this event.  

More later

Catch up again

I'm recovering from 'orrible shingles and have been reading and re-reading stuff.
List incomplete at the moment. The comments may result from a slightly warped view on life, and poor concentration. ;-)

How the Dead Live - by Will Self - inventive and funny, but I lost interest about half way through.

Kate Atkinson - Case Histories and One Good Turn - very complex crime stories with loads of overlapping characters and stories.

Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake in a genetically engineered future, where Snowman is the only surviving human with all the failings of the race - until the very end. I found it absorbing, but ultimately uninvolving. And I love Atwood's work.

Oryx and Crake - Atwood

I have just read this for the second time.