The Americas, September 1st, 2003
OF FANTASTIC FUTURES AND IMAGINED PASTS Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood. New York: Doubleday, 2003. With Oryx and Crake, Canada's premier novelist returns to the kind of chilling, futuristic fiction that distinguished her classic of the genre, The Handmaid's Tale. In the brave new world of Oryx and Crake, mom and dad have disappeared. Children are raised by "parental units." Natural food is scarce. Instead, people consume synthetic or genetically engineered products such as SoyOBoyburgers and Happicuppuchinos. The geniuses who create these new items live in closely guarded compounds run b...
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