Oryx and Crake
With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity—and its present. Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman's recollections Atwood re-creates a time much...
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With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity—and its present. Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman's recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a boy named Jimmy loved an elusive, damaged girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake. But now Snowman is alone, and as we learn why we also learn about a world that could become ours one day.
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Format: ebook
ASIN: 9780385721677
Publish date: 30-03-2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Speculative Fiction,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Canada,
Fiction
This was, in fact, my first go at reading Margaret Atwood. I’m not entirely sure why I chose this one to read first, I think I saw a glowing review for it’s sequel on tumblr and decide that, well, I might as well start here. And, yes that was a pretty good decision as this book floored me.Like, I’m ...
this was quite a follow up to read direct after cloud atlas, as it easily could have fit between the sonmi and sloosha's crossin' chapters. only, for as great a writer as atwood is, it lacked in many ways cloud atlas delivered. please note, i am not saying this is a in any way a bad book -- it is no...
Long ago in my Philosophy of the Arts class, we read and argued a great deal about the Intentionalist Fallacy. This is the claim that the artist's intentions don't matter, that what matters is the meaning conveyed by the art product. I find authors' intentions interesting, but try first to understan...
I am a Margaret Atwood fan, and I am trying to do a "best of sci-fi summer" and I wanted to read this book for the simple fact that she wrote it, but didn't think it fit the bill. Fortunately it did (I would have read it anyway), and I liked it more than I expected to. In true Atwood fashion, ther...
I really liked this book and found it absolutely fascinating. It is a dark vision of the future for which much rang true to my mind, but that also made some parts hard to read. Overall, I think this book is worth reading. Atwood portrays the world ours could become.
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