Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
I've recently discovered a lovely room in the Georgia Tech library completely dedicated to sci-fi. It's such a charming spot to hang out, with little spherical person-cubbies to relax in while taking in the smell of a thousand thinkers' printed pages. Thank you to the wonderful librarians and researchers who maintain this amazing space and collection! While browsing through the collection, I stumbled upon Oryx and Crake , a book that many of my classmates had read in high school, but I somehow missed. After rectifying this childhood omission, I can say: it's alright! It's not the best book I've read in the past year (that goes to Light From Uncommon Stars , which I'll review soon), but it was engaging and satisfying. This post-apocalyptic story is told from the perspective of Snowman, a human making do and staying alive near a group of "Crakers," whom we slowly learn are genetically-modified humans. The recently-destroyed society was dominated by...
