Waterless Flood
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The Waterless Flood is a catastrophic, bioengineered pandemic in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy that wipes out most of humanity without involving an actual deluge.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bioengineered plague
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fictional event ⓘ fictional pandemic ⓘ plot element ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
MaddAddam
NERFINISHED
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Oryx and Crake NERFINISHED ⓘ The Year of the Flood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Crake
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ren NERFINISHED ⓘ Snowman NERFINISHED ⓘ Toby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithGroup | God’s Gardeners NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTo |
backstory of Oryx and Crake
ⓘ
plot of The Year of the Flood ⓘ resolution in MaddAddam ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| creator | Margaret Atwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
catastrophic pandemic
ⓘ
waterless deluge ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | literal flood ⓘ |
| effectOnWorld |
collapse of global civilization
ⓘ
near-extinction of human population ⓘ |
| foretoldBy | God’s Gardeners NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
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post-apocalyptic fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCause |
Craker-related biotechnological research
ⓘ
bioengineered virus ⓘ |
| hasMetaphoricalMeaning |
judgment without water
ⓘ
technological hubris ⓘ |
| kills | most of humanity ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | initiates post-apocalyptic setting ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | MaddAddam trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
bioterrorism
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genetic engineering ⓘ global catastrophe ⓘ pandemic ⓘ |
| spreadMode | engineered pathogen release ⓘ |
| themeOf |
apocalypse and survival
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biotechnology ethics ⓘ corporate power and corruption ⓘ ecological catastrophe ⓘ |
| timeInNarrative | near future ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.