The Year of the Flood follows the path of Toby, rescued by Adam One and the God’s Gardeners from a hideous life entangled with slum crime and SecretBurgers (nobody knows what’s in them); and also of Ren, one-time underaged girlfriend of Jimmy. Each has survived the “Waterless Flood” – Gardener code-name for the viral pandemic: Ren holed up in Scales and Tails, the upmarket sex club where she’s been working, and Toby barricaded into the AnooYoo Spa in the Park, where she’s been working under an assumed name after the Gardeners have been outlawed. The Year of the Flood brings Toby and Ren onto the scene just as Jimmy, addled by his infected foot, is trying to decide whether to shoot or not, and ends several hours after that. The moon is rising, Jimmy the evil Painballers are roped to a tree, securely, we hope; the Crakers are approaching, the hostile Pigoons roam the forest. What next, we wonder?

 MaddAddam tells us what next.