This Week in Reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake takes place in a post apocalyptic future. The novel jumps back and forth in time, though both narratives start further into a dystopian timeline than where I am currently reading it from. In the latter timeline, Snowman lives in a ravaged world amongst Crakers-- simple, human-like creatures that are completely unaware of human history or traditional societal practices. In the earlier timeline, Snowman is still known as Jimmy and lives on a bio-engineering compound with his parents, who are developing products designed to improve a failing world. The novel moves between Snowman and Jimmy to reveal how the past became the present; how one world fell into utter destruction and a new one rose up in it’s ashes.
engineered simplicity
engineered simplicity
engineered simplicity
This Week in Reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake takes place in a post apocalyptic future. The novel jumps back and forth in time, though both narratives start further into a dystopian timeline than where I am currently reading it from. In the latter timeline, Snowman lives in a ravaged world amongst Crakers-- simple, human-like creatures that are completely unaware of human history or traditional societal practices. In the earlier timeline, Snowman is still known as Jimmy and lives on a bio-engineering compound with his parents, who are developing products designed to improve a failing world. The novel moves between Snowman and Jimmy to reveal how the past became the present; how one world fell into utter destruction and a new one rose up in it’s ashes.