A própria Atwood sugere strongmente que a ordem de leitura dos dois primeiros romances; 'Ano do Dilúvio' e 'Oryx & Crake é bastante irrelevante.
Ela descreve-os como sendo:
"the same time period, and with some overlapping incidents and characters. But it looks at that world through different eyes... closely tied, in some ways. But a freestanding structure as well." Canadian Living Interview
No que diz respeito a MaddAddam, ela está ansiosa para que você leia os dois romances anteriores primeiro (em qualquer ordem) à medida que eles introduzem elementos de enredo importantes e personagens que são explorados com mais detalhes:
Many of the characters from the first two books converge at the end of The Year of the Flood; MaddAddam tells the story of what happened next. “Think of it as two roads converging,” Atwood says.National Post Interview
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So the structure is like this peace sign in which these two [lines] end at the same point, and then the third one goes on from there…Random House Interview