Oryx and Crake
A man who may be the last human alive pieces together how corporate bioengineering and one friend's genius ended the world
The first book of Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, narrated by a man who calls himself Snowman and may be the last human alive. Through his memories the novel reconstructs a near future of corporate biotech, engineered creatures and widening inequality, and the friendship that tipped it into catastrophe. Atwood insisted it was not science fiction but speculative fiction: nothing in it, she said, that we cannot already do.
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