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# Oryx and Crake (The MaddAddam Trilogy)

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the internationally acclaimed MaddAddam trilogy is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future — f rom the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century 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.

Review: Gripping read - I had avoided this book for years. I loved Atwood's Blind Assassin so much, that I dreaded this switch of genre. After all, dystopian lit isn't really my thing. To me, they are either too bleak or are packed with too much scientific nonsense. But given the impending release of the final book in the trilogy, I thought I'd give it a go. There is something about fantasy trilogies (albeit a dystopian one) that tickles my reading fancy. I was glad to find that I could not have been more wrong about this book. This book grabbed me from the very first page. It cleverly played on existing fears of technology, in this case of biotechnology. What if the very thing we create to advance our lives becomes the very sword that ends it? And to Atwood, this what-if pondering isn't limited to the creation of the single terminator specimen, that ultimate weapon of mass destruction, but includes the failure übercapitalist system that is constructed to keep humans safe (and, well, sustain the biotech corporate machine). What if Mother Nature, who this society has strived to conquer and control, lashes back, revolts, avenges? What Atwood has brilliantly done here is to present us the night,ate of a technocratic society. Atwood created a world where humans are no longer in the picture as they were all but one killed by a super virus and surviving species are humanoids, genetically engineered to withstand everything from mosquitoes to diseases and are stripped are human flaws such as greed over property and sexual frustration, traits that have lead humans to wage wars. Domesticated genetically engineered animals have escaped and are now found in the "wild": pigoons (pigs used to breed human organs), wolvogs, fluorescent rabbits and more. The earth's climate has degraded to the extent that it is inhabitable to the common man. Before the outbreak, mankind had organised themselves into colonies; now void and dilapidated. The only person, who has survived the terrible tragedy that had befallen mankind is Snowman. Or previously known as Jimmy. Throughout the book, as we learn more about the bleak and dreadful post apocalyptic world, we also learn about Jimmy's past, his relationship to Crake, a person or being, who seems to be behind all this, including the humanoids (they are called the Children of Crake) and his relationship to a mysterious woman, Oryx (all the animals are referred to as Children of Oryx). Are they deities? Supernormal beings? As we follow Snowman's attempt to trace back his steps, the books comes to an unexpected conclusion, which proved once again that this is not you run-of-the-mill dystopian novel. It was shattering but intriguing at the same time, you can't help but asking: WHY? Unlike many, I didn't feel unsatisfied at all with what many called an 'abrupt' ending. Then, a discovery that Snowman may, after all, not the only one to have survived, provided a nice Segway into the second book. Really glad I waited till now to read all three because this means I can dive straight into the second book! Granted, some parts lacked the necessary scientific explanation and hence may come across rather unconvincing. How did the genetically modified species survive given their dependency on humans? Why didn't Snowman succumb to other forms of environmental stresses? How did humans managed to stay so segregated and yet when the outbreak happened, why did it travel so rapidly? But none of that really matters, because Atwood never intended this to be a forecast. Instead this is an exercise of the mind, a parable of the worst case scenario to engage our minds into exploring the protean of human nature, the things worth preserving, holding on to, whether it is physically and mentally, when all is lost. Highly recommended to students and adherents of alternative thinking and the philosophy of counterfactuals. And of course to any dystopian lit enthusiast!
Review: Fascinating, Prescient Character-Based Dystopia - One day, something is going to be the end of the world as we know it. Superbacteria and/or a global plague. Nuclear war. Heck, maybe the zombie apocalypse. But why not climate change? In Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, it's climate that creates the void into which increasingly powerful corporations pour themselves. Soon, the divide between the haves and the have-nots becomes even more literal, with the highly-educated few retreating into city-esque complexes created and owned by business interests, while the masses are walled off into their own zones. Jimmy is born into privilege, to a mother and father who are good worker bees, and it is in the compound school that he meets Glenn, who becomes his best friend...and who ends up changing the world beyond what anyone could have imagined. As an adult, Jimmy has renamed himself Snowman (after The Abominable), and as far as he knows, he's the last "real" human left alive. There's a group of genetically engineered people, the Children of Crake, but they're not the same. He's left alone, in a devastated world, with only his memories and his guilt over the role he played in it all. These memories make up the bulk of the book, with very little actually happening in an actual plot sense. Jimmy does venture back to the last place he lived in search of food and sunscreen and medicine, which forces him to confront what happened with Glenn, who became Crake, and the beautiful, reserved Oryx, who was involved with them both. How they died, and how the virus that wreaked havoc on the rest of the world was released. It's a character study as much as a work of speculative fiction, and that's really Atwood's strength anyways. She loves to dig into the ways our little flaws can set in motion events that spiral out of control, to take the tensions underlying society and drag them up into the open. I find it really interesting that this book was written in 2003, the year I graduated high school, because so much of it seems to apply to the kinds of debates that continue to be relevant even now: just because we have the technology or knowledge to do something, does that mean we should? How do we weigh morality? Whose morality gets weighed? The writing date of the book does mean there are some things that come off anachronistic (she posits a world focused on disc-based storage, in which email is a primary communication method), a lot of it is startlingly prescient. Clearly I liked it, but it was not without failings. The biggest, for me, was its lack of developed female characters. Jimmy's mother is intriguing, but we see relatively little of her and through mostly his eyes, reflecting on the way her choices impacted him. Oryx remains to the reader just as mystifying as she largely is to Jimmy, and while I could see Atwood intending this as a statement of how men tend to project their own stories only the women they claim to love (Jimmy is convinced he knows parts of Oryx's past, which she herself denies), I wish we'd gotten more of her perspective. And as much as I enjoy character-driven novels, I wish it had been structured differently, so that it was taking place in the present rather than largely in the past. These are relatively minor issues, though. On the whole, this book is fascinating and thought-provoking and one I'd recommend widely (though maybe not younger/less sophisticated teenagers).

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #20,943 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #119 in Dystopian Fiction (Books) #144 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Books) #725 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 14,083 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gripping read
*by D***I on July 12, 2013*

I had avoided this book for years. I loved Atwood's Blind Assassin so much, that I dreaded this switch of genre. After all, dystopian lit isn't really my thing. To me, they are either too bleak or are packed with too much scientific nonsense. But given the impending release of the final book in the trilogy, I thought I'd give it a go. There is something about fantasy trilogies (albeit a dystopian one) that tickles my reading fancy. I was glad to find that I could not have been more wrong about this book. This book grabbed me from the very first page. It cleverly played on existing fears of technology, in this case of biotechnology. What if the very thing we create to advance our lives becomes the very sword that ends it? And to Atwood, this what-if pondering isn't limited to the creation of the single terminator specimen, that ultimate weapon of mass destruction, but includes the failure übercapitalist system that is constructed to keep humans safe (and, well, sustain the biotech corporate machine). What if Mother Nature, who this society has strived to conquer and control, lashes back, revolts, avenges? What Atwood has brilliantly done here is to present us the night,ate of a technocratic society. Atwood created a world where humans are no longer in the picture as they were all but one killed by a super virus and surviving species are humanoids, genetically engineered to withstand everything from mosquitoes to diseases and are stripped are human flaws such as greed over property and sexual frustration, traits that have lead humans to wage wars. Domesticated genetically engineered animals have escaped and are now found in the "wild": pigoons (pigs used to breed human organs), wolvogs, fluorescent rabbits and more. The earth's climate has degraded to the extent that it is inhabitable to the common man. Before the outbreak, mankind had organised themselves into colonies; now void and dilapidated. The only person, who has survived the terrible tragedy that had befallen mankind is Snowman. Or previously known as Jimmy. Throughout the book, as we learn more about the bleak and dreadful post apocalyptic world, we also learn about Jimmy's past, his relationship to Crake, a person or being, who seems to be behind all this, including the humanoids (they are called the Children of Crake) and his relationship to a mysterious woman, Oryx (all the animals are referred to as Children of Oryx). Are they deities? Supernormal beings? As we follow Snowman's attempt to trace back his steps, the books comes to an unexpected conclusion, which proved once again that this is not you run-of-the-mill dystopian novel. It was shattering but intriguing at the same time, you can't help but asking: WHY? Unlike many, I didn't feel unsatisfied at all with what many called an 'abrupt' ending. Then, a discovery that Snowman may, after all, not the only one to have survived, provided a nice Segway into the second book. Really glad I waited till now to read all three because this means I can dive straight into the second book! Granted, some parts lacked the necessary scientific explanation and hence may come across rather unconvincing. How did the genetically modified species survive given their dependency on humans? Why didn't Snowman succumb to other forms of environmental stresses? How did humans managed to stay so segregated and yet when the outbreak happened, why did it travel so rapidly? But none of that really matters, because Atwood never intended this to be a forecast. Instead this is an exercise of the mind, a parable of the worst case scenario to engage our minds into exploring the protean of human nature, the things worth preserving, holding on to, whether it is physically and mentally, when all is lost. Highly recommended to students and adherents of alternative thinking and the philosophy of counterfactuals. And of course to any dystopian lit enthusiast!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fascinating, Prescient Character-Based Dystopia
*by G***M on November 5, 2020*

One day, something is going to be the end of the world as we know it. Superbacteria and/or a global plague. Nuclear war. Heck, maybe the zombie apocalypse. But why not climate change? In Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, it's climate that creates the void into which increasingly powerful corporations pour themselves. Soon, the divide between the haves and the have-nots becomes even more literal, with the highly-educated few retreating into city-esque complexes created and owned by business interests, while the masses are walled off into their own zones. Jimmy is born into privilege, to a mother and father who are good worker bees, and it is in the compound school that he meets Glenn, who becomes his best friend...and who ends up changing the world beyond what anyone could have imagined. As an adult, Jimmy has renamed himself Snowman (after The Abominable), and as far as he knows, he's the last "real" human left alive. There's a group of genetically engineered people, the Children of Crake, but they're not the same. He's left alone, in a devastated world, with only his memories and his guilt over the role he played in it all. These memories make up the bulk of the book, with very little actually happening in an actual plot sense. Jimmy does venture back to the last place he lived in search of food and sunscreen and medicine, which forces him to confront what happened with Glenn, who became Crake, and the beautiful, reserved Oryx, who was involved with them both. How they died, and how the virus that wreaked havoc on the rest of the world was released. It's a character study as much as a work of speculative fiction, and that's really Atwood's strength anyways. She loves to dig into the ways our little flaws can set in motion events that spiral out of control, to take the tensions underlying society and drag them up into the open. I find it really interesting that this book was written in 2003, the year I graduated high school, because so much of it seems to apply to the kinds of debates that continue to be relevant even now: just because we have the technology or knowledge to do something, does that mean we should? How do we weigh morality? Whose morality gets weighed? The writing date of the book does mean there are some things that come off anachronistic (she posits a world focused on disc-based storage, in which email is a primary communication method), a lot of it is startlingly prescient. Clearly I liked it, but it was not without failings. The biggest, for me, was its lack of developed female characters. Jimmy's mother is intriguing, but we see relatively little of her and through mostly his eyes, reflecting on the way her choices impacted him. Oryx remains to the reader just as mystifying as she largely is to Jimmy, and while I could see Atwood intending this as a statement of how men tend to project their own stories only the women they claim to love (Jimmy is convinced he knows parts of Oryx's past, which she herself denies), I wish we'd gotten more of her perspective. And as much as I enjoy character-driven novels, I wish it had been structured differently, so that it was taking place in the present rather than largely in the past. These are relatively minor issues, though. On the whole, this book is fascinating and thought-provoking and one I'd recommend widely (though maybe not younger/less sophisticated teenagers).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A darkly funny update of Brave New World for a consumer-driven society
*by J***E on March 5, 2017*

Dystopias are all the rage these days, and even setting aside some grim feelings about our current age, it’s not hard to understand why. Dystopias make for rich world building, sure, but more than that, they allow writers to play with heady concepts – the power of language (1984), genetic engineering (Brave New World), unfiltered modern communication (Chaos Walking), media circuses (The Hunger Games), and so forth. What’s rarer, though, is finding a dystopian novel with a sly, dark sense of humor about itself, laughing all the way through the apocalypse and beyond. And yet, that’s what you get with Margaret Atwood’s wonderful Oryx and Crake, a post-apocalyptic tale that gradually starts revealing its roots in a dystopian society of sorts, filled with designer medications, profit-seeking corporations, medical research, and genetic engineering. You know, fiction. In strict plot terms, Oryx and Crake is simple – it tells the story of Snowman, a human living in some sort of post-apocalyptic Earth. Mind you, this isn’t a radioactive blight, or some ashen McCarthy hellscape. No, the Earth of Oryx and Crake simply qualifies as post-apocalyptic by virtue of the fact that we rapidly realize that Snowman might be the last human being alive. Now, that doesn’t mean he’s the last humanoid – not with that tribe of creatures so like us, but so different, living nearby. And as we watch Snowman’s awkward interactions with a set of creatures that don’t quite understand him, he thinks back to the world that was – and how he and his friend Crake, along with a woman named Oryx, just might have ended it all. This dual-threaded story structure lets Atwood play around in a number of ways, exploring not only a landscape changed thanks to the tampering of man with genetics, but also with our own modern world, showing how our own habits could end up being our doom. In Atwood’s hands, Oryx and Crake becomes a Brave New World for the modern age, where it’s not ourselves we need to genetically engineer – it’s the world around us, from animals to diseases, and most especially, to our medications. In the wrong hands, Oryx and Crake could turn didactic and preachy, a jeremiad against modern conveniences and our desire to be happy above all else. But Atwood lets the subtext carry its own weight, instead investing us in Snowman, his awkward place in a tiered society that doesn’t have much need of him, and his friendship with the brilliant, strange Crake. Without giving too much away, Atwood’s story becomes far more human and emotionally driven than you might expect from its epic world-building, and its depiction of the way the world ends is almost bitterly funny. That, of course, goes for much of the book, whose absurd brand names, bad drug side effects, internet sites, and school settings all feel dead-on, pushed just one step beyond our current reality and into deadpan parody. There’s a dark winking to help the trenchant points go down, finding the absurdity in so much of our modern world and trying to help us laugh at it along with Atwood. For all of that, I’m not sure Oryx and Crake quite sticks the landing; even knowing that there are two more books to follow doesn’t make the slightly open-ended ending here less frustrating or less arbitrary feeling, as though Atwood just picked a bit of a random point at which to end the book. It’s not a dealbreaker – not in a book whose characters are this rich, whose world is this intriguing, whose commentary is so well handled – but it is the one sour note in Oryx and Crake, a book that otherwise I absolutely loved, beginning to end, and the one that confirmed for me what I thought after I finished The Handmaid’s Tale years back: that I really need to make reading more Atwood a priority.

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