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 ...

Montgomery; Golden Child by Claire Adam; Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood ... Did you find the horrors described, and the characters’ attitudes towards them, surprising? 2.

It was one of Crake's rules that no name could be chosen for which a physical ... A woman's voice says caressingly in his ear, Nice buns! It isn't Oryx, it's some other woman. Oryx is no longer very ...

Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake is not science fiction in a real sense ... In Snowman, Atwood has created a brilliant character, his despair at being the sole keeper of all that is known of the human ...