Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
I had downloaded Oryx and Crake onto my Pam Zire but I had trouble with the program not recognizing italics and this book is FULL of italics. I finally bought it in paperback and finished it on Metro over the weekend.
In Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood considers what could happen to the world with a future of bioengineering food and human bodies. The risks are not just in the biologicals themselves, the modified foods and and methods of changing our genes, and not just the warfare between manufacturing and R&D entities. The pure hearted, the idealistic, those are the REAL danger. Sure, most of them are nobodies but beware the insiders with points to make.
Through Oryx and Crake we are lead through a world that is much more extreme and polarized than ours today but is certainly possible and into an apocalypse where all the flaws of humanity are wiped out and rewritten.
A despairing and depressing look at human possibility.
In Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood considers what could happen to the world with a future of bioengineering food and human bodies. The risks are not just in the biologicals themselves, the modified foods and and methods of changing our genes, and not just the warfare between manufacturing and R&D entities. The pure hearted, the idealistic, those are the REAL danger. Sure, most of them are nobodies but beware the insiders with points to make.
Through Oryx and Crake we are lead through a world that is much more extreme and polarized than ours today but is certainly possible and into an apocalypse where all the flaws of humanity are wiped out and rewritten.
A despairing and depressing look at human possibility.
# posted by JJ @ 8:03 PM 
