Enjoy the first three episodes of Margaret Atwood's acclaimed series "Positron".
In the saucy but sinister Byliner Serial "Positron," Booker Prize–winning author Margaret Atwood takes readers on a thrill ride to the near future, where a totalitarian state collides with the chaos of human desire.
"As seamless as a stocking, and shockingly believable" is how "The Globe and Mail" describes "I'm Starved for You," the first episode of Positron. In it Atwood maps the world of Consilience, an Orwellian society in which it's the lawful who are locked up, while, beyond the gates, criminals wander the wasted streets of America.
Stan understands the Faustian deal he and his wife, Charmaine, have made. In exchange for a house, food, and what the online brochure hails as "A Meaningful Life," they've chosen to become guinea pigs in this new social order. The couple know that to break the rules is dangerous; but, driven by unrelenting boredom and lust, they do it anyway and betray each other and the system.
In "Choke Collar," the second and steamiest episode of the series, they get their comeuppance: Stan finds himself the sexual plaything of a subversive member of the Consilience security team and in no time is made a pawn in a shadowy scheme to bring Consilience crashing down.
Meanwhile, Charmaine is being held indefinitely at Consilience's prison, Positron, for her own sins of the flesh: a torrid affair carried on with another resident. How far she'll go to regain her good name and position is anyone's guess, especially Stan's. In "Erase Me," installment number three, the couple learn the hard way that marriage can be murder.
The sexually charged and morally complex stories of Positron are like a trip to a deviant funhouse. Stay tuned for the final episode of Atwood's dystopian dark comedy, and discover whether anyone can overcome the greatest treachery of all: human nature.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Margaret Atwood is the author of the internationally bestselling novel "The Handmaid's Tale" as well as forty other books of fiction and nonfiction, including "The Blind Assassin," "Oryx and Crake," and "The Year of the Flood." Her most recent collection of stories is "Moral Disorder." She has written about utopias and dystopias in "In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination." Atwood was awarded the Booker Prize in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin."
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