Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood’s gothic tale of biotechnological disaster, spends most of its 376 pages building up to the revelation of What Happened. Her amiable narrator, Snowman, knows What ...

T he Orks are one of the best factions in Warhammer 40,000, and everybody has a soft spot for these big green boys. Everyone in the setting is a bad guy of one stripe or another, ...

Oryx and Crake, fortunately, falls closer to the former than the latter. It’s a story about The End of Civilization As We Know It, but the event is coming up very soon – around the year 2050, it seems ...

It involves the predictable rivalry between Jimmy and Crake over someone they call Oryx, the nameless young woman from Asia who made her improbable way from the child brothels of Thailand or ...

Oryx and Crake was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize when it was published in 2003, and was a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004.

Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake is one of those novels that make you fear for the future. Take, for example, this quote from the eponymous Crake: "All it takes," said Crake, "is the elimination ...

Take the chaos of Mario Kart, the wilderness of alien worlds, and the sheer insanity of the 40k Orks and that's the core concept for Speed Freeks. It's a combat racer that requires players to be ...

Margaret Atwood: Oryx And CrakeLike her best-known novel, The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's new Oryx And Crake begins in a seemingly alien future, then dips back into the past to show how it ...

Margaret Atwood's new MaddAddam completes the post-apocalyptic science fiction trilogy she began with 2003's Oryx and Crake. Reviewer Annalee Newitz says MaddAddam is a "snarky but soulful peek at ...