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Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.
- Sales Rank: #4200 in Books
- Published on: 2004-05
- Released on: 2004-03-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.90" h x .80" w x 5.10" l, .68 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 389 pages
Amazon.com Review
In Oryx and Crake, a science fiction novel that is more Swift than Heinlein, more cautionary tale than "fictional science" (no flying cars here), Margaret Atwood depicts a near-future world that turns from the merely horrible to the horrific, from a fool's paradise to a bio-wasteland. Snowman (a man once known as Jimmy) sleeps in a tree and just might be the only human left on our devastated planet. He is not entirely alone, however, as he considers himself the shepherd of a group of experimental, human-like creatures called the Children of Crake. As he scavenges and tends to his insect bites, Snowman recalls in flashbacks how the world fell apart.
While the story begins with a rather ponderous set-up of what has become a clich�d landscape of the human endgame, littered with smashed computers and abandoned buildings, it takes on life when Snowman recalls his boyhood meeting with his best friend Crake: "Crake had a thing about him even then.... He generated awe ... in his dark laconic clothing." A dangerous genius, Crake is the book's most intriguing character. Crake and Jimmy live with all the other smart, rich people in the Compounds--gated company towns owned by biotech corporations. (Ordinary folks are kept outside the gates in the chaotic "pleeblands.") Meanwhile, beautiful Oryx, raised as a child prostitute in Southeast Asia, finds her way to the West and meets Crake and Jimmy, setting up an inevitable love triangle. Eventually Crake's experiments in bioengineering cause humanity's shockingly quick demise (with uncanny echoes of SARS, ebola, and mad cow disease), leaving Snowman to try to pick up the pieces. There are a few speed bumps along the way, including some clunky dialogue and heavy-handed symbols such as Snowman's broken watch, but once the bleak narrative gets moving, as Snowman sets out in search of the laboratory that seeded the world's destruction, it clips along at a good pace, with a healthy dose of wry humor. --Mark Frutkin, Amazon.ca
From Publishers Weekly
Atwood has visited the future before, in her dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale. In her latest, the future is even bleaker. The triple whammy of runaway social inequality, genetic technology and catastrophic climate change, has finally culminated in some apocalyptic event. As Jimmy, apparently the last human being on earth, makes his way back to the RejoovenEsencecompound for supplies, the reader is transported backwards toward that cataclysmic event, its full dimensions gradually revealed. Jimmy grew up in a world split between corporate compounds (gated communities metastasized into city-states) and pleeblands (unsafe, populous and polluted urban centers). His best friend was "Crake," the name originally his handle in an interactive Net game, Extinctathon. Even Jimmy's mother-who ran off and joined an ecology guerrilla group when Jimmy was an adolescent-respected Crake, already a budding genius. The two friends first encountered Oryx on the Net; she was the eight-year-old star of a pedophilic film on a site called HottTotts. Oryx's story is a counterpoint to Jimmy and Crake's affluent adolescence. She was sold by her Southeast Asian parents, taken to the city and eventually made into a sex "pixie" in some distant country. Jimmy meets Oryx much later-after college, after Crake gets Jimmy a job with ReJoovenEsence. Crake is designing the Crakers-a new, multicolored placid race of human beings, smelling vaguely of citron. He's procured Oryx to be his personal assistant. She teaches the Crakers how to cope in the world and goes out on secret missions. The mystery on which this riveting, disturbing tale hinges is how Crake and Oryx and civilization vanished, and how Jimmy-who also calls himself "the Snowman," after that other rare, hunted specimen, the Abominable Snowman-survived. Chesterton once wrote of the "thousand romances that lie secreted in The Origin of Species." Atwood has extracted one of the most hair-raising of them, and one of the most brilliant.
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From Booklist
Surely Atwood deserved a respite after The Blind Assassin (2000) won the Booker Prize, but the muse had more to say, hence this hijack-intense speculative novel, sister to one of Atwood's most indelible works, The Handmaid's Tale (1985). Jimmy is struggling to stay alive on a wreckage-littered Earth besieged by a brutal sun and overrun with smart and vicious test-tube-bred predators. Now calling himself Snowman (as in Abominable), he's preparing for an arduous scavenger expedition back to the formerly high-tech compound in which he lived and worked until the bioengineering industry ran amok and a catastrophic event put an end to civilization. Snowman is desperately lonely, but he isn't actually alone since he serves as guru for a strangely passive tribe unaware of the lost world of computers, bullet trains, Web porn, gene-splicing, and the plagues that Snowman so vividly and regretfully recalls. As Snowman remembers his friend, Crake, an emotionally remote genius, as well as the love of Snowman's life, an enigmatic survivor of childhood sexual abuse called Oryx, Atwood conjures a grim, all-too-plausible future in order to consider the possibly devastating consequences of our present ill-advised biotech pursuits. Rigorous in its chilling insights and riveting in its fast-paced "what if" dramatization, Atwood's superb novel is as brilliantly provocative as it is profoundly engaging. Donna Seaman
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Atwood has done better
By Chelsea K.
Margaret Atwood is easily one of my favorite authors. Some of her books had me at the edge of my seat. I remember as a kid reading under the covers with a flashlight because it was past my bed time and I would get in trouble otherwise.
This book is just not like that. I’ve had a much harder time getting attached to these characters and wanting to know what happens next. I’ve been reading it for a couple months now on and off. It’s very interesting and of course it is beautifully written (as anything Margaret Atwood is) but it’s just hard to figure out what is going on.
I’m about halfway through the book now…and I suppose it would be better to finish it before writing a review but…it’s so hard to read without falling asleep. I couldn’t even tell you what the plot is yet. It is interesting at some points but I am just not sure where it is going…if it is going anywhere.
Although still a good book…just not what I expected from an author like Margaret Atwood and with so many good reviews. Maybe I’m just not reading it right or something. When a book is a best seller you do expect it to have a certain value to it that appeals to a broad audience and I just do not think this book has it. If I had to watch this as a movie I would probably fall asleep in the middle which is where most movies/books are just getting good!
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Patience, grasshopper
By Cori Dyson
This book was hard for me to get into. I'm not sure why. I started and stopped numerous times. When I finally finished it, I was glad I did. The book doesn't really grab you until about middle of the book. When it grabs you, it really grabs you, so consider yourself warned!
This has excellent theme and is thought provoking. While the plot is slow to develop, the second half of the book makes up for the first half. If you can have patience, then you will be rewarded with an excellent story.
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This Little Piggy Went To Market
By The Parentals
A team of scientists proposed two techniques that could enable edible meat to be grown in laboratories on an industrial scale. One method involves growing sheets of meat cells on scaffolding, which would then be stretched and stacked to increase thickness, the other requires creating "structured muscle tissue as self-organizing constructs," which would then be harvested and turned into hamburger or nuggets. "The challenge," said one meat scientist "is getting the texture right. We have to figure out how to `exercise' the muscle cells."
Harpers FINDINGS, November 2005
Homeless Person: Help me: I haven't eaten in three days.
Jewish Mother: Force yourself.
Very funny Jewish Joke
I have been reading science fiction since I was twelve years old. I've read just about everything, except more recently because I am getting older and find so much of science fiction just repeating itself. New ideas are getting harder and harder to find.
One recent reviewer didn't think that Oryx and Crake qualified as good sci-fi because good sci-fi requires depth of character. He must be kidding. You have to look long and hard for character development in sci-fi. The problem with most science fiction today is the people who write the stuff fancy themselves Artists and claim that sci-fi is great literature. So they say.
Here's the rub: Oryx and Crake is science fiction. There is no doubt about it. But more importantly, Margaret Atwood is not a science fiction writer. Science fiction writers are the first to attest to that. To let Margaret Atwood into their hallowed self-congratulatory circle would mean setting a standard that few are capable of equaling.
Oryx and Crake is filled with character development. The story is about us. And because of that there is nothing very special about Jimmy. Jimmy is your typical self absorbed human being. Margaret Atwood does a wonderful job of showing us how rank we are capable of becoming as we consume everything in sight, and in the process pollute the very form and essence of life. Everything will turn to kaka, and we will find ways to consume even that. So, when you find out what a Pigoon is for, or what a ChickieNob is, go ahead and laugh, it's hilarious. Die laughing.
For years, science fiction writers have brought us broadside attacks on consumerism and corporate absurdity. Science fiction is loaded with satire, but too often it's about Them. We are endlessly invaded from without. In the end, we will have done it to ourselves. The meek aren't going to inherit the Earth, they will destroy it.
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