Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy

With the publication ofMaddAddamin 2013, the story that Margaret Atwood began withOryx and Crakein 2003 and continued withThe Year of the Floodin 2009 stands complete and can be read as a single narrative. Over the course of the MaddAddam trilogy, Atwood relies on notions of collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability as she establishes setting, navigates turns of plot and weighs the actions of characters, among which we must number the multinational corporations – OrganInc, HelthWyzer, AnooYoo and others – where several of her protagonists are employed. The concepts of collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability