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Oryx and Crake: Atwood's Dystopian Future
Margaret Atwood writes two distinct types of novels. She's probably best known for her female-centered mysteries like Lady Oracle, Cat's Eye, The Edible Woman, and Booker Prize winner The Blind Assassin. The Canadian author has written over ten books and has assembled a number of poetry anthologies... Read full review »
Gene-Splicing Run Amok - A Different Kind of Atwood
My first experience with Margaret Atwood's body of work was when I read "The Handmaid's Tale", a chilling book that really moved and affected me. When I heard that her latest book, Oryx and Crake, was along the same lines as "The Handmaid's Tale", I knew that I had to read it immediately.
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Sidekick to the Mad Genius
There's something about staring one's mortality in the face - personally or as a species - that humans seem to find eternally fascinating. That's probably why the apocalypse in its many guises is a staple of science fiction. It makes no difference whether the end of the world arrives as a covey of... Read full review »
A brilliant amalgam.
Two very different books have mated in the brilliant authorial mind of Margaret Atwood and created this stunning, resonant, masterpiece of a novel . If you take " A Separate Peace" and heart/mind meld it with " On The Beach" you have this stunning work– a work that while it still dazzles with it's... Read full review »
Genetic engineering gone horribly, horribly, wrong
Much of science fiction deals with dystopia, some of which verge on the apocalyptic. It is not a side of science fiction that particularly appeals to me, as I find the premise depressing and often too far-fetched for me to suspend disbelief. However, Margaret Atwood has created a hauntingly real... Read full review »
Oryx and Crake
I have read most of the novels of Margaret Atwood, but my all-time favorite is The Handmaid's Tale, a scary futuristic dystopia in which women are valued only for their ability to reproduce. It has taken me a while to finally find time to read Atwood's newer dystopian fiction, Oryx...
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Pigoons and Snats - Creative Genius
After reading "A Handmaid's Tale", I was compelled to find more works from Atwood exploring the possibilities of nightmare scenarios that could arise from our modern world. "Orynx and Crake" explores the already raised question of science, and whether its 'benefits' and 'discoveries' do more harm... Read full review »
Inevitible Dystopia
I don't often buy a hard cover edition of any book, preferring to wait until the library has a copy, a friend buys it, or it comes out in paperback. However, I do make an exception for certain authors, and Margaret Atwood is one of them.
I ordered the book from Amazon, and it took longer...
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Dystopian future so creepy you won't sleep afterwards!
WARNING.... SPOILER... Soome plot detaills are revealed in this review.
Taken purely as a work of fiction, it would be incredibly easy to enjoy Oryx and Crake, the most recent product of the brilliant, if not devious, mind of Margaret Atwood, as a quick read – though definitely not one to...
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Marshmallow Reading
Oryx and Crake was a breeze. Despite the troubling subject matter it was a breeze. Atwood makes it so easy to just read and read, and one might miss the fact that Oryx and Crake is such a shallow fantasy.
I am conflicted. Margaret Atwood constructs for the reader a vivid and strangely...
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Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood - 9780385721677 - 0385721676
ISBN13: 9780385721677. ISBN10: 0385721676. by Margaret Atwood. Published by Random House, Inc.. Edition: 03
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Oryx and Crake
A new work by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace is set in a future world that has been devastated by a series of ecological and scientific disasters. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
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