MARGARET ATWOOD'S Oryx and Crake manages to be simultaneously bleak, witty and immensely enjoyable, no mean feat given that its subject is the destruction of humankind. Set in an unspecified location ...

But they have no lust, no ambition, no jealousy, no art—no humanity. You would be forgiven for ... maybe 200 years. Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake is not science fiction in a real sense, it is more ...