Oryx And Crake (MaddAddam Series, Book One) by Margaret Atwood
Penguin Random House
Paperback
*BLAIR’S PICK!*
One of the reasons I love sci-fi and or anything post-apocalyptic, is that you spend the beginning of the story learning a new vocabulary in a new universe and you don’t know what’s going on because you are opening the pages of this world and it doesn’t have to explain itself to you, the voyeur. Atwood is brilliant with her pacing and moments of revelation to the reader in this very strange world that feels like it could be ours. It’s the first in a trilogy and you’ll want to get to the 2nd the second you finish.
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.
Penguin Random House
Paperback
*BLAIR’S PICK!*
One of the reasons I love sci-fi and or anything post-apocalyptic, is that you spend the beginning of the story learning a new vocabulary in a new universe and you don’t know what’s going on because you are opening the pages of this world and it doesn’t have to explain itself to you, the voyeur. Atwood is brilliant with her pacing and moments of revelation to the reader in this very strange world that feels like it could be ours. It’s the first in a trilogy and you’ll want to get to the 2nd the second you finish.
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.
Penguin Random House
Paperback
*BLAIR’S PICK!*
One of the reasons I love sci-fi and or anything post-apocalyptic, is that you spend the beginning of the story learning a new vocabulary in a new universe and you don’t know what’s going on because you are opening the pages of this world and it doesn’t have to explain itself to you, the voyeur. Atwood is brilliant with her pacing and moments of revelation to the reader in this very strange world that feels like it could be ours. It’s the first in a trilogy and you’ll want to get to the 2nd the second you finish.
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.