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	Oryx and Crake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crake used his prominent position at a biotech corporation to launch a project to create the hybrid Crakers.
		Jimmy was unknowingly vaccinated with the intention of acting as a guardian for the Crakers.
		Thus, Crake could be argued to be a mad scientist, albeit maddened by the troubled society he occupied; alternatively, one might see Crake as rationally saving intelligent life from an inevitably dying society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oryx_and_Crake (561 words)

	Spotted Crake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		The Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana) is a small waterbird, of the family Rallidae.
		At 19-22.5 cm length, Spotted Crakes are slightly smaller than Water Rails, from which they are readily distinguished by the short straight bill, yellow with a red base.
		Spotted Crakes are very secretive in the breeding season, and are then mostly heard rather than seen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spotted_Crake (236 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Oryx and Crake
		It is the not-so-distant future that provides the stark setting for her newest novel, Oryx and Crake, an absorbing and disturbing cautionary vision of a post-apocalyptic earth.
		He remains obsessed with Oryx, and when Crake resurfaces and hires him to work on the Paradice Project, Jimmy is stunned to find Oryx there, in the flesh.
		Oryx is also the teacher of the Crakers, part of Crake's attempt to create perfect humans, immune to diseases and free from sexual aggression and instincts for domination and war.
	www.bookpage.com /0305bp/fiction/oryx_and_crake.html (754 words)

	Book Review - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
		Crake's intelligence and ambition led him to the best college and to the top of the scientific ladder until he was in charge of top-secret projects of his own bidding.
		It was Crake's plan that led to the end of humanity as he knew it, leaving Jimmy as Snowman to protect and care for his creatures.
		While there are hints in Crake's life of an undercurrent of resentment and anger in his personality, he never becomes the cliché mad scientist ready to exact his revenge on the world that wronged him.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /oryx_and_crake/review (2370 words)

	Bookreporter.com - ORYX AND CRAKE by Margaret Atwood
		ORYX AND CRAKE, however, is primarily concerned with the dangers of genetic engineering, as Atwood explores a future in which today's initial forays into manipulating the genetic codes of plants and animals (including humans) have exploded, driving the world economy and requiring not just teams of able scientists, but savvy marketers as well.
		Crake was in charge of a two-pronged project --- creating a pill that would properly channel mankind's misplaced sexual energy, thereby eliminating war and other nasty problems, and developing a new kind of people, genetically engineered so that those problems would never arise in the first place.
		And Jimmy's and Crake's environs are all high-tech biological campuses and laboratories, with airlocks and ruthless security guards ensuring that the secret work of the scientists living within remains within.
	aolsvc.bookreporter.aol.com /reviews/0385503857.asp (2813 words)

	Book Review: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake by Alexander Moseley
		His best friend, Crake, however, apparently has a vision of what life and his role in it ought to be: ‘apparently’, for both men grow up as products of their culture, a culture that is very much embedded in our contemporary world.
		Crake’s not far off social ineptitude himself, so he calls in his old friend Snowman to work on his project to help balance his own lack, "I needed someone to talk to" (p.306).
		Crake envisages the more disastrous wiping out of the present generation, leaving few if any survivors from a mass extinction — and of course, civilisation, which depends so much on the intricate ever-changing matrices of interdependent relationships, would be destroyed.
	www.lewrockwell.com /moseley/moseley8.html (3194 words)

	Del Rio v. Crake
		Crake, a tourist, ran the stop sign at the intersection and impacted the vehicle Del Rio was operating.
		Crake then moved for summary judgment, and, on July 9, 1997, the circuit court heard argument on the motion.
		Crake responds that the statute is not unconstitutional because this court, in Joshua and McAulton, "misinterpreted the Legislature's intent inasmuch as it meant then and now to preclude recovery in tort regardless of whether one did or did not have motor vehicle insurance."
	www.state.hi.us /jud/21094.htm (4526 words)

	ORYX AND CRAKE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Crake had been working with human embryos, altering the “ancient, primate brains” to eliminate destructive features, when the virus epidemic hit.
		It would ruin all the fun to explain just what Crake is up to, but Atwood clearly intends his shenagans to be a cautionary tale of science run amok.
		In interviews with the press after publication of Oryx and Crake, Atwood is quoted as saying “Its all possible right now, every bit of it.” By scaring her readers, Atwood draws their attention to the impact of today’s science.
	www.txtwriter.com /Bookshelf/bookreviews/oryxandcrake.html (288 words)

	Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - read review
		Atwood's primary goal here is not only to entertain her audience but to anticipate and describe the global horror of a devastated environment and its implications for mankind.
		Alternating between the unnamed disaster in which Snowman finds himself at the outset of the novel and his flashbacks to his youth and early adulthood with Crake, she brings a dismal future-world to life, saving the explanation of the catastrophe which wrought this devastation till the end.
		Crake is the anti-hero, remote and distanced, both from Jimmy and from us.
	mostlyfiction.com /scifi/atwood.htm (1414 words)

	Corn Crake -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		The Corn Crake (Crex crex) is a small (Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings) bird in the family (Rails; crakes; gallinules; coots) Rallidae.
		They are in steep decline across most of their range because modern farming practices mean that nests and birds are destroyed by mowing or harvesting before breeding is finished.
		Corn Crakes are very secretive in the breeding season, and are then mostly heard far more often than they are seen.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/corn_crake.htm (225 words)

	Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
		Her novels A Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake are both clearly science fictional, but they're never shelved in the bookstores in anything other than "literature." Atwood demurs the label "science fiction," preferring the term "speculative fiction" (although it's completely mysterious to me what the difference might be between the two).
		Through Snowman's retrospections, we discover that he was once a 21st century boy named Jimmy, largely ignored by his busy father and his emotionally distant mother (who gradually reaches a crisis of conscience over her husband's employment by a string of cutting-edge bioengineering companies).
		Nonetheless, Oryx and Crake is a novel worthy of attention from both fans of quality literature and fans of quality science fiction.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Feb05/oryxandcrake.htm (321 words)

	FictionAddiction.NET - Bookworm's Book Review: Oryx and Crake
		Crake created them as a fresh start to civilization, or rather, as a fresh start to humanity without the burdens of civilization (i.e.
		The Crake they're praising is a fabrication, a fabrication not unmixed with spite: Crake was against the notion of God, of or gods of any kind, and would surely be disgusted by the spectacle of his own gradual deification.
		Left behind is Snowman, friend of Crake, lover of Oryx, and caretaker of a new breed of people devoid of all the aggressive tendencies that marred human existence.
	reviews.fictionaddiction.net /oryxcrake.html (667 words)

	Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Oryx and Crake
		Oryx and Crake is apparently set just a few decades down the road (the author, who seems so sure of what the future will bring, is surprisingly coy about specifying a date).
		During these flashbacks, we slowly learn about the artificial plague created by Crake that destroyed humanity; although global warming also plays a role in Atwood's singularly unpleasant future, biotech and genetic engineering are the clear villains of the piece.
		After all, prejudice keeps many otherwise intelligent readers from entering the science-fiction section of bookstores (Toronto-based SF writer Terence M. Green counters the "I don't like SF" chestnut with a simple question: "What work of SF did you read that led you to form that opinion?" The answer, of course, is none...).
	www.sfwriter.com /broryx2.htm (949 words)

	Margaret Atwood--Oryx and Crake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		The scientists Crake hires to work for him are part of a group called MaddAddam, originators of the Extinctathon game to which Crake was so addicted in his youth (Extinctathon’s slogan: “Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones”).
		Crake certainly doesn’t want his new humans to have faith, which he considers a pointless and destructive distraction: along with other changes and improvements, he has engineered out the religious impulse.
		But Crake lacks definition, perhaps because he must carry so much thematic baggage; he’s more a symbolic force than a human being, and his motivations, which Atwood doesn’t really attempt to delve into, seem to spring less from character than from the demands of the novel’s premise.
	www.sff.net /people/victoriastrauss/ReviewOryx.html (1227 words)

	Excessive Candour
		The pleeblands (an astonishingly inept formulation, which might have been marginally improved, and certainly made easier to subvocalize, had she spelled it correctly) are out of any of a dozen Ace Doubles from around 1960, maybe by John Brunner or Robert Silverberg or Philip K. Dick when they were beating pulp between spasms of genius.
		Crake matriculates into the Watson-Crick Institute, where he is given everything from lab space to whores, while the far less intelligent Snowman (whose real name is Jimmy) goes to the Martha Graham Academy in New York, which is limned in colours evocative of Thomas M. Disch's great On Wings of Song (1979).
		Oryx is clearly beautiful, and clearly beyond the understanding of anyone in the text; or of the text itself, which cannot allow too much reality into its cod-dystopian remit, into its sci-fi-in-bondage gaze upward from the deep past toward the aged props of yesterday.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue325/excess.html (1300 words)

	LMT Tech Resource Store: Books : Oryx and Crake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		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.
		Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes—into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.
		The story of Oryx and Crake is set in the future and is a story of genetics splicing and all kinds of crazy scientific stuff.
	www.elise.com /lmtstore/0739307444/Oryx_and_Crake.html (1279 words)

	BookkooB: Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
		'Oryx and Crake' may be a literary novel, but it is as gripping as the best thrillers as the narrative evolves from a 'whodunnit' into a why and howdunnit.
		Oryx and Crake, as well as being a novel of science having deformed itself, is also an incredibly sophisticated literary thriller.
		Crake is an anti-hero, remote and distanced, and Oryx remains a mystery.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/1844080285.htm (1484 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Oryx and Crake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		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.
		Crake and Jimmy live with all the other smart, rich people in the Compounds, gated company towns owned by biotech corporations.
		But Oryx and Crake is compelling, and interesting, not least because Atwood is a wildly talented writer with a wonderful turn of phrase.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0771008686 (1299 words)

	Swartriethaan, Black Crake
		The Black Crake is solitary, occurs in pairs or sometimes small groups.
		The bird pecks food from mud surfacewater plants and from the water surface, and climbs reeds to catch flying insects.
		The Black Crake is a monogamous, cooperative breeder and solitary nester.
	focusonpictures.com /zuidafrika/vogels/vogel19.htm (246 words)

	Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
		The story of a dystopian world, which could be ours tomorrow, has the sole survivor of world-wide catastrophe trying to maintain his existence while putting together the story of what happened.
		Oryx is the woman of Crake and the desire of Snowman.
		This is typical Atwood in that the protagonists are trying to make sense and tell the story of what happened and they only get to the crisis point at the end of the novel.
	homepage.mac.com /bekker2/iblog/B1321052184/C1270932981/E415218889 (192 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
		Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.
		The pre-catastrophic society in Oryx and Crake is fixated on physical perfection and longevity, much as our own society is. Discuss the irony of these quests, both within the novel and in our own society.
		In the world of Oryx and Crake, almost everything is for sale, and a great deal of power is now in the hands of large corporations and their private security forces.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/oryx_and_crake1.asp (773 words)

	Review \| Oryx and Crake: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
		In Oryx and Crake we're dealing with technology and genetic manipulation gone so horribly awry that, as the book opens, it looks very much like the end of the world.
		In Oryx and Crake we meet Snowman, known as Jimmy in a previous time, and now apparently the last fully human person on Earth.
		And though what is beautiful in Oryx and Crake is very beautiful, indeed, there is much more that is dark and scratchy and uncomfortable.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/oryxandcrake.html (729 words)

	* Crake - (Bird): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		It is about the size of Clapper Rail, but has a bill no larger than that of the Sora...
		Spotless crake are more often heard than seen and have a wide variety of calls which are usually heard at dawn and dusk.
		The spotted crake is only the size of a starling.
	www.bestknows.com /bird/crake.html (256 words)

	Book Reviews - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
		Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake begins with the narrator, who calls himself Snowman, marooned on a beach and believing himself to be the sole survivor of a tragedy that has destroyed the human race.
		Snowman grew up in the late 21st century in a world where global warming has risen sea levels and destroyed cities, the majority of the people live in squalor in vast pleeblands, and the privileged live in secure communities run by biotech companies.
		The Independent says, "Oryx and Crake is Atwood at her best - dark, dry, scabrously witty, yet moving and studded with flashes of pure poetry." Oryx and Crake was on the short list of nominees for the 2003 Man Booker Prize.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /oryx_and_crake (233 words)

	crake on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Status of the Spotless Crake (Porzana tabuensis) in American Samoa.(Short Communications)
		Paul Crake à l'arrivée au sommet de l'Empire State Building Un coureur australien a remporté mardi, pour la cinquième fois.
		The end is nigh: Hugo Barnacle on why margaret atwood has spent too much time reading the papers.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-crake.asp (474 words)

	Spotted Crake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Immediate thoughts were of a Spotted Crake and a short-while later, identification was confirmed when the bird came back into sight, giving excellent views at a distance of 50 metres.
		Here, plumage details allowed the bird to be aged as an adult and very probably a female, with the grey around the head being paler than that expected on a male.
		Following a gap of nearly fifty years, Spotted Crakes again were found in the county, with three birds at Stoke Bardolph in 1944.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /eakringbirds/spottedcrake.htm (417 words)

	Slashdot \| Oryx and Crake
		Despite its bleak themes, Oryx and Crake is far from depressing--it's mostly cheerful and upbeat, which turns out to be a fine way to write about obsession and love and revenge and the end of the world.
		Crake was interested in everything--all the projects that were going on.
		Oryx is too one dimensional to care about as anything but a prop, and Crake is just...well, he too is one dimensional, but that is mainly from the narriation as opposed to his actual being.
	books.slashdot.org /books/04/01/07/174247.shtml?tid=186&tid=214 (4973 words)

	Playback St. Louis REVIEWS- Oryx and Crake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		It’s a lonely planet for Snowman, the tragiccomic hero of Margaret Atwood’s imaginative, playfully grim new novel, Oryx and Crake.
		Draped in a foul bedsheet, he wakes in a tree near an ocean, voices in his head, struggling to face another day as the only man alive.
		(Crake argues that the last of these is not the act of dying, but the “foreknowledge” of dying; take that away, and you’ve got immortality.
	www.playbackstl.com /Current/SH/oryx.htm (593 words)

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