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ISBN13: 9780385721677 |
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"The genre of doom-laden futuristic fiction has its share of classics ? such as H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four ? and these works are now joined by Margaret Atwood's splendid novel." Richard A. Posner, The New Republic (read the entire New Republic review)
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Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it.
This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake, nothing will ever look the same again.
The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? 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.
With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers.
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Anaya, September 1, 2006 (view all comments by Anaya)
Like "Handmaid's Tale," Margaret Atwood takes her readers on another dystopic and futuristic tale, one which could come true, give or take a few thousand years. Read and find out what happens when science and ethics clash, when love and jealousy combust and how humanity ends up becoming caught up in what Atwood considers the ultimate and horrific world apocalpse. The novel depicts a chilling story while hinting how mankind could go downhill with science and technology, while in a different time and parallel story, the main character desperately searches for glimmer of hope in dark times - a way out of the apocalpyse and towards a better world and future. Definitely deserves a place on the shelf for sci-fi readers and Atwood fans or a college syllabus.
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slavetowhim, August 24, 2006 (view all comments by slavetowhim)
I was fascinated and horrified by this tale of scientists "playing God" through genetic engineering. Creative, thorough, and well researched, this is science fiction not to be missed.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780385721677
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Anchor Books
- Author:
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Science Fiction - General
- Copyright:
- 2003
- Publication Date:
- March 2004
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 400
- Dimensions:
- 8.06x5.22x.85 in. .62 lbs.
