Wenham, Gordon (2003). "Genesis". In James D. G. Dunn, John William Rogerson (ed.). Eerdmans Bible Commentary. Eerdmans. ISBN 9780802837110. Book Nineteen: The Deluge". Ginza Rabba. Vol.Right Volume. Translated by Al-Saadi, Qais; Al-Saadi, Hamed (2nded.). Germany: Drabsha. 2019. pp.203–204. [Note: this book, or a larger text containing it, is numbered book 18 in some other editions.]

This is a gutsy and expansive novel, rich with ideas and conceits, but overall it's more optimistic than Oryx and Crake...Each novel can be enjoyed independently of the other, but what's perhaps most impressive is the degree of connection between them. Together, they form halves of a single epic. ..." - Publishers Weekly For us in the UK, serious heat waves typically translate to hosepipe bans, crop failures and a rise in heat-related deaths amongst the old and infirm in urban centres. Bodner, Keith (2016). An Ark on the Nile: The Beginning of the Book of Exodus. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-878407-4. The story of the flood occurs in chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. Ten generations after the creation of Adam, God saw that the earth was corrupt and filled with violence, and he decided to destroy what he had created. But God found one righteous man, Noah, and to him he confided his intention: "I am about to bring on the Flood ... to eliminate everywhere all flesh in which there is the breath of life ... ." So God instructed him to build an ark (in Hebrew, a chest or box), and Noah entered the Ark in his six hundredth year [of life], and on the 17th day of the second month of that year "the fountains of the Great Deep burst apart and the floodgates of heaven broke open" and rain fell for forty days and forty nights until the highest mountains were covered to a depth of 15 cubits, and all life perished except Noah and those with him in the Ark. After 150 days, "God remembered Noah ... and the waters subsided" until the Ark rested on the mountains of Ararat, and on the 27th day of the second month of Noah's six hundred and first year the earth was dry. Then Noah built an altar and made a sacrifice, and God made a covenant with Noah that man would be allowed to eat every living thing but not its blood, and that God would never again destroy all life by a flood. [13] Composition Building the Ark (watercolor c. 1896–1902 by James Tissot)

Timely and gripping. . . . Atwood tells a good story, one filled with suspense and even levity.” —USA Today of the Gardener’s creed, she comes to understand its benefits in a way Ren does not. Ren finds life with the Gardeners dull, and she envies children who are living in poverty for their shiny, stolen clothing.

Fellow novelist Ursula K. LeGuin describes Atwood’s work as a “near-future that's half prediction, half satire,” though she criticized Atwood for categorizing The Year of the Flood as speculative fiction, a genre more likely to win literary prizes than science fiction. Update this section!

our role in respect to the Creatures is to bear witness...and to guard the memories and genomes of the departed. You can’t fight blood with blood. a b Moore, Caroline (2009-09-10). "The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood: review". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 2010-12-06. Atwood's interest is in neither pole of pampered luxury or suffering poverty, but in something that arises in the overlapping areas of discontent of both rich and poor. There is a seething mass of gangs and religious/mystical groups, all vying for attention and claiming some kind of power and authority – "the Known Fruits, the Petrobaptists…the Lion Isaiahists and the Wolf Isaiahists… the pleebrat gangs, the brown Tex-Mexes, the pallid Lintheads…" Gilbert, Christopher (2009). A Complete Introduction to the Bible. Paulist Press. ISBN 9780809145522. the fountains of the great deep [were] broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights."

The Year of the Flood] shows the Nobel Prize-worthy Atwood . . . at the pinnacle of her prodigious creative powers.”— Elle Walton, John H.; Longman III, Tremper (2018). The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate. InterVarsity Press. ISBN 978-0-8308-8782-8. Balbas, A.M., Barth, A.M., Clark, P.U., Clark, J., Caffee, M., O'Connor, J., Baker, V.R., Konrad, K. and Bjornstad, B., 2017. 10Be dating of late Pleistocene megafloods and Cordilleran Ice Sheet retreat in the northwestern United States. Geology, 45(7), pp. 583-586. The Year of the Flood offers another perspective on the timeline of Oryx and Crake, the trilogy’s original novel. In Oryx and Crake, the mysterious narrator, Snowman, describes his role in the events leading up to the “dry flood”, an airborne disease that obliterated the vast majority of Earth’s population. In The Year of the Flood, Atwood describes the flood’s consequences for two pleebs, members of the lower class, who find refuge from the flood in wildly different places. It introduces the God’s Gardeners, an eco-conscious cult that predicted the environmental disaster. Atwood even intersperses hymns and homilies from the God’s Gardeners within the novel. Vintage Atwood: It’s artfully edgy, casting a pitiless eye on her fellow creatures. . . . A powerful indictment of the way human beings have long treated the planet and themselves. . . . The book takes big risks.”— Chicago TribunePeace goes only so far....There’s at least a hundred new extinct species since this time last month. The leader of God's Gardeners, Adam One, is admired as a charismatic holy man within the group, but he is perceived by outsiders as a cult leader. The novel is filled with sermons and hymns Adam One gives to the religious sect. Although she is skeptical, finding it difficult to follow the theology and follow the religious traditions, Toby becomes an influential member of the gardeners. She even rises to the official position of an Eve. Within the sect Toby encounters Ren, a child member of the gardeners. Rudoy, A.N., Baker, V. R. Sedimentary effects of cataclysmic late Pleistocene glacial outburst flooding, Altay Mountains, Siberia // Sedimentary Geology, 85 (1993) 53-62". Archived from the original on 15 September 2011 . Retrieved 14 October 2011. With Atwood’s characteristic brainy humor. . . . The Year of the Flood consistently does what one expects of any work by Margaret Atwood: It entertains, spins out suspense and rewards a reader’s basic impulse, all the while subtly and expertly maintaining its literary respectability.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune