Our narrator SNOWMAN is self-named, though not self-created. He's sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved ORYX and his best friend CRAKE, and slowly starving to death. Earlier, SNOWMAN'S life had been one of privilege. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Was he himself in any way responsible? Why is he now left alone with his bizarre memories - alone except for the more-than-perfect green-eyed CHILDREN OF CRAKE, who think of him as a monster? He looks for ...
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Our narrator SNOWMAN is self-named, though not self-created. He's sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved ORYX and his best friend CRAKE, and slowly starving to death. Earlier, SNOWMAN'S life had been one of privilege. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Was he himself in any way responsible? Why is he now left alone with his bizarre memories - alone except for the more-than-perfect green-eyed CHILDREN OF CRAKE, who think of him as a monster? He looks for answers by taking a double journey, back into his own past, and to CRAKE'S high-tech bubble dome, where the PARADISE PROJECT unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her material, ATWOOD again projects us into a less-than-brave new world. This is an outlandish yet wholly believable space, devastated in the wake of ecological and scientific disaster and populated by a cast of characters who will long inhabit your dreams.
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Add this copy of Oryx and Crake to cart. $6.17, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Virago Press.
Add this copy of Oryx and Crake to cart. $6.17, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Virago Press.
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ninthchord
Oct 8, 2010
Thoroughly inundated with intertextuality: the Bible, Huxley, Orwell, etc. Similar to Huxley with the theme of a dystopian future and genetic engineering gone awry, or at least taken to its most extreme. I was surprised with many of Atwood's ideas and found them quite creative. I appreciate that she uses certain words in order to preserve them or save them from obscurity (brainfart, for example), but it would have been better to use them in context instead of listing them in Snowman's thoughts.
Also, the theme of genetic engineering taken to the extreme has been done before: Huxley's "Brave New World" and Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar," for examples. The problem is that, even though Atwood attempts to update this trope by including technology since those books appeared (the Internet, chat rooms, etc.), she offers nothing new to the story and Brunner and Orwell told the story better.
lovelywilde
Aug 5, 2009
beautiful
Oryx and Crake is at once beautiful and unsettling, thoughtful and terrifying, imaginative and down-to-earth.
wordnerd
Nov 6, 2008
It is excellent IF you enjoy reading about possible future scenarios here on eart. A future that does not have aliens, but just of science gone out-of-control. One that makes you think about the way we are headed.
conso
Sep 28, 2008
A book worth reading!
This is the first book I read from Margaret Atwood. I found it very interesting and scarily realistic. We are living days of profound changes all around the world, both socially and environmentally oriented, and the author gives us a glimpse of a situation that could possibly become true in the future. The story is easy to read and follow, and it captures the reader's attention from the very first chapter. I will definitely purchase another book by this author.
