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‘Margaret Atwood’s technical skill is magisterial, and her prescient futuristic fable Oryx and Crake is typically unputdownable. The science fiction is all-too convincing (aberrant weather conditions, extremes of genetic engineering, viral plagues) but it is Atwood’s gradual unfolding of the personal drama that really grips’ Katie Owen, Sunday Telegraph ‘Oryx and Crake presents an eerily prescient scenario: in a world of aberrant weather conditions and extremes of genetic engineering, a virus has apparently destroyed all human life except for a man calling himself Snowman, and a group of disarmingly simple followers. Snowman’s struggle for survival is layered with memories of his childhood friend, Crake, and his lover, Oryx, and Atwood’s magisterially skilled storytelling keeps the reader on tenterhooks. While the sci-fi details are all too convincing, it is the psychological aspect of the book, and especially Snowman's passion and despair, that linger in the mind’ Mail on Sunday Click here for the discussion on Newsnight Review Click here for the review in Economist.com Click here for the review in the San Francisco Chronicle Click here for the review in Savannah Now
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