Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood

Introduction and Acquisition: Well, it's Margaret Atwood, isn't it? - First read her when I was an early teen, The Handmaid's Tale, which left quite an impression - When Oryx and Crake came out I had kept it in the back of my mind to read - borrowed from library September 2007

What's cool: hard to put down because - whether this was a clever or cheap gimmick - I was lured into wanting to know what exactly happened to lead to this apocalypse. Interesting story, the dangers, the creative imagination, the eventual unlikely savior that snowman/jimmy became

What sucks: It is one of the problems of using some ever developing techology in a story, for it really dates it. Already, only a few years later, the sinister internet as portrayed in O&C is no longer, and the implications of the evil of mankind in using such technology is sort of ludicrous. But hey, what would I have thought if I read it three or four years ago? And I just don't vibe with the utter evil that human kind is portrayed as possessing. Maybe I am too optimistic, maybe I just like technology too much, maybe I was a little too involved in the industries she uses, but I didn't buy the premise.