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	Oryx and Crake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oryx and Crake is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.
		Crake used his prominent position at a biotech corporation to launch a project to create the hybrid Crakers.
		Crake is a thought leader in the most advanced (and corrupt) health care system in human history, and Jimmy is unable to save humanity by simply getting Crake's head examined.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oryx_and_Crake (780 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Oryx and Crake
		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.
		Crake, creator-God of the new humans and destroying angel of the old, ensured that everyone in his orbit bore the name of a recently extinct animal.
		Australia has crakes and I was thinking about their rarity, and I started this." Even so, the 63-year-old author was "constantly amazed" while she was writing "by the parts that were coming true." That would surely include seeing her hometown, Toronto, become a global hot spot for a new and frightening disease.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Oryx-and-Crake (1952 words)

	Book Review - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
		Oryx and Crake moves back and forth between Snowman trying to survive in his future that has no future, and his past where his only enjoyment of life was his friendship with Crake and his love for Oryx.
		Oryx and Crake are the mysterious and intriguing characters of this novel.
		Oryx is a woman who treasures the positive aspects of her life, refusing to dwell on what she doesn't have or despairing over her situation.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /oryx_and_crake/review (2358 words)

	Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, reviews, links and opinions, book club reading suggestions
		It is obvious that Crake is a genius and that he is destined to make it big in the biotech corporates while Jimmy has a plodding talent for words and literature (an archaic and superfluous talent).
		Oryx and Crake is reminiscent of the dark and visionary The Handmaid's Tale, but with the chilling psychological depth of Alias Grace.
		Oryx and Crake is as much about marketing and market-related manipulation as it is about ecological mayhem.
	www.book-club.co.nz /books03/5oryxcrake.htm (2362 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)

	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).
		Oryx is much more enigmatic; she steadfastly refuses to cast judgment on the pornographers and slave traffickers she encountered as a child.
		Atwood's account of Oryx's early days seems pointless within the greater context of the story (child slavery is bad, but it seems an unnecessary distraction in a novel dominated by the potential of genetic tinkering).
	www.scifidimensions.com /Feb05/oryxandcrake.htm (321 words)

	dragonsworn [book review] - Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Oryx herself is given a background as a child prostitute in an unnamed asian country, but even with her integration into the main plotline, serves mainly as an impetus for Crake and Jimmy rather than as a character herself.
		Corporate parasitsm is a major theme in 'Oryx and Crake', and the conclusions she draws are immensely intriguing, and perhaps a little frightening.
		Both are admirably executed, and 'Oryx and Crake' suffers only from a weak ending that doesn't answer the gripping questions the rest of the novel poses.
	www.dragonsworn.com /reviews/books/oryxandcrake.html (1113 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.
		Oryx's job is to train the Crakers how to function --- she shows them what foods and animals are safe and teaches them to cope in the world.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0385503857.asp (2830 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.
		Oryx, whom they both meet later in life, was in a child-porn web-cast they came across: her story is one of a flight from poverty via exploitation — yet Oryx is relatively more philosophical, or at least Stoical, about her fate than Snowman, who rails against the people who exploited her.
		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).
	www.lewrockwell.com /moseley/moseley8.html (3194 words)

	Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - an infinity plus review
		Crake - who is a rather tepid and self-conscious updating of the mad scientist as sorcerer - recruits Jimmy to run the ad campaign for his line of designer humanoids.
		To the boys, Oryx represents a purity that is outside of culture, a bridge to life outside the corporate compounds where they grew up.
		Crake's motivation is a hatred of the world as it is, combined with a drive to perfect it.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/oryxandcrake.htm (1134 words)

	Oryx and Crake
		Oryx and Crake, Atwood presents another memorable world, and takes on the challenges of genetic experiments, corporate imperialism, the values conveyed by games and media, and the steady progress of one misstep after another.
		Crake said that with digital genalteration you couldn't tell whether any of these generals and whatnot existed any more, and if they did, whether they'd actually said what you'd heard.
		Crake said these bloodfests were probably taking place on a back lot somewhere in California, with a bunch of extras rounded up off the streets.
	www.hopkinsandcompany.com /Books/Oryx%20and%20Crake.htm (1856 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Talk: Margaret Atwood
		Her latest novel is the stunning and provocative ORYX AND CRAKE.
		In this interview Atwood talks about her decision to include a male protagonist in ORYX AND CRAKE, her own spiritual philosophy and the application of humor in the novel's serious premise.
		I assume that the "God's Gardeners" organization in ORYX AND CRAKE used this kind of insight as a cornerstone of their theology.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/talk-atwood-margaret.asp (1116 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Oryx and Crake
		Oryx and Crake opens on a mystery: a lone man called Snowman, slowly starving to death in a world apparently empty of human beings like himself.
		Oryx is also loved by Crake, for whom she seems to serve as a sort of muse.
		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.
	www.sfsite.com /10a/oc161.htm (1346 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
		Oryx and Crake includes many details that seem futuristic, but are in fact already apparent in our world.
		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)

	McClelland and Stewart Ltd: Oryx and Crake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Oryx and Crake was begun in March, 2001.
		For the most part we were bird-watching, but we also visited several open-sided cave complexes where Aboriginal people had lived continuously, in harmony with their environment, for tens of thousands of years.
		I continued to write away at Oryx and Crake during the summer of 2001.
	www.mcclelland.com /features/oryxandcrake/essay.html (810 words)

	Amazon.ca: Oryx and Crake: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Crake’s mysterious focus and monolithic ambition made for fascinating speculation and when the shrouds his private thoughts and high intellect were dispersed, it did make a perverse sense in the end.
		Crake offered an element of consistency to the novel and the interaction between him, Jimmy and Oryx was riveting and wonderfully revealing of all three.
		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 (1225 words)

	Oryx and Crake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I first heard of Oryx and Crake when people started showing up on ifMUD thinking that it was a chat room devoted to the life and works of Margaret Atwood.
		Oryx and Crake takes place in the future, except that the characters still watch DVDs, which were an obsolete technology even when the book came out — I guess Atwood and her editors didn't get the word about Bittorrent before the novel went to press.
		Oryx and Crake is about a couple of young male geeks from the early/mid-21st century.
	adamcadre.ac /calendar/11611.html (2088 words)

	Review \| Oryx and Crake: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
		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.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/oryxandcrake.html (729 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).
		But, to me, as a science-fiction writer, the saddest thing about Oryx and Crake is that it will be seen as cutting-edge and visionary by the literati, instead of as what it really is: a retread of timeworn ideas.
		But after finishing Oryx and Crake, I better understand Margaret Atwood's reluctance to let her work be considered as science fiction.
	www.sfwriter.com /broryx2.htm (939 words)

	Books (etc) We Like (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		""Oryx and Crake" is Margaret Atwood's interpretation of the possible extinction of the human race.
		Crake was also working with Oryx, a woman who had haunted Jimmy's thoughts his entire life.
		Oryx and Crake is a cautionary tale about the hubris of Man, who believes despite all evidence to the contrary that he can use unbridled technology to improve on the work of Nature (or, if you prefer, God.) Atwood could have written the Brave New World for our generation.
	bookswelike.net /isbn/0385721676 (1472 words)

	ORYX AND CRAKE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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)

	Amazon.com: Oryx and Crake: Books: Margaret Atwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		The third main character is Oryx, a woman whose history takes the reader to a third world Asian country where she was sold into a type of servitude, and eventually becomes a prostitute.
		Crake is an anti-hero, remote and distanced, and Oryx remains a mystery.
	www.tinyurl.com /h3u8 (2550 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Oryx and Crake: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Darkly humorous and icily prescient, Oryx and Crake shows a writer deeply concerned with the stark moral issues facing the human race, and accords a glimpse of a future that lies all too uneasily within reach.
		And I didn’t particularly get Oryx either, she seemed to have little depth and it was hard to understand her attitude and outlook on life (far easier to understand Snowman’s who I did feel I knew and understood better).
		Oryx and Crake is a message to us all, presenting an unsettling conception of mankind's potential demise.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0747562598 (1631 words)

	Locus Online: Field Inspections
		Oryx And Crake is somewhere between a Neal Stephenson future-tech novel and Richard Matheson's I Am Legend: It focuses closely on the day-to-day trivia of life both in a decaying, overcrowded world and in a post-apocalyptic, near-empty one, and it's packed with fascinating ideas.
		Oryx and Crake is Atwood at her best — dark, dry, scabrously witty, yet moving and studded with flashes of pure poetry.
		Her work is always researched: Oryx and Crake, a novel blending a biological apocalypse with a genetically engineered genesis, acknowledges a number of personal debts in terms of research and background, but also scrupulously offers a list of documentary sources at a web address.
	www.locusmag.com /FieldInspections.html (6207 words)

	Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
		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 society.
		In the world of Oryx and Crake, almost everything is for sale, and a great deal of power is in the hands of large corporations and their private security forces.
		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 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.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0385721676&view=rg (965 words)

	Artists Network of Refuse & Resist! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fifty-six years later, as one of the leading writers in Canada, she has published her 11th novel, "Oryx and Crake" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), and that river ant could have been a character in it.
		Her last two novels, "Alias Grace" in 1996 and "The Blind Assassin," which won the Booker Prize in 2000, were, respectively, a historical tale about a Canadian woman convicted of murder in 1843 and a novel within a novel about two sisters and the lies and compromises in their lives.
		Soon, in a flashback, two other people made their appearance in the text: Crake, a manipulative genius, and Oryx, a waif who becomes a muse to Crake and Snowman.
	www.artistsnetwork.org /news10/news472.html (1235 words)

	Definition of Oryx and Crake
		The protagonist of Oryx and Crake is Snowman, clad only in a bedsheet, who appears to be the last human being on Earth.
		At the same time, Crake created a virulent genetic epidemic that, apparently, killed off all humans except for Jimmy.
		In the story's climax, Crake arranged his own death by manipulating Jimmy into killing Crake for self-defense.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Oryx_and_Crake (602 words)

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