For those of you who haven’t yet read it, Oryx and Crake is an amazing novel by Margaret Atwood and deserves the love and attention of any science-fiction/literary readers. Honestly, I’ve still reeling from the beauty of her prose, her characters. The book is centered around “Snowman” who is one of the last humans on Earth, and his recollection of his childhood, how the world changed, and how humanity eventually expired–although the “extintion” of humankind isn’t totally accurate.
For me, it’s so rare that I find a book that finds such a gorgous balance of science-fiction and literary fiction, but Atwood’s characters are complete and flawed, and her imagination is reallly unparralleled. I’ve also read The Handmaid’s Tale and Blind Assassion, which are both wonderful, but Oryx and Crake has had been up the last few nights just thinking about it. Go read it.
Oh Margaret Atwood, you are so wonderful.
