In a foreword specially commissioned for our edition, Atwood returns to the novel she wrote more than 15 years ago, and to the questions it raised – ones that remain equally pertinent today: ‘How slippery is the slope? … Who’s got the will to stop us?’ There are no answers, she concludes, but her prophetic tale creeps dangerously closer to reality as the years pass.

Using a carefully selected pastel palette, award-winning illustrator Harriet Lee-Merrion has produced a series of quietly unsettling artworks that convey societal collapse with an eerie sense of detachment, while the binding design reflects the scientific foundation of Atwood’s narrative. Following The Folio Society’s gorgeous and much-admired edition of The Handmaid’s Tale, this new volume sizzles with the dangerous heat and underlying menace of a ravaged America. Shortlisted for both the Man Booker and Orange prizes, Margaret Atwood’s novel – a prophetic tale of a human race all but wiped out by plague – is threaded with dark humour. Currently, an adaptation of the MadAddam trilogy is in development at Paramount Television and Anonymous Content.‘Saturated in science, the novel is simultaneously alive with literary resonances … superlatively gripping and remarkably imagined’ It was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, as well as for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction.Ī television adaptation of Oryx and Crake and its follow-up novels, The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013), was being helmed by Darren Aronofsky by 2014, under the working title 'MaddAddam', but was dropped by HBO by October 2016. The book was first published by McClelland and Stewart. The reader learns of his past, as a boy called Jimmy, and of genetic experimentation and pharmaceutical engineering that occurred under the purview of Jimmy's peer, Glenn 'Crake'. It focuses on a lone character called Snowman, who finds himself in a bleak situation with only creatures called Crakers to keep him company.

She has described the novel as speculative fiction and adventure romance, rather than pure science fiction, because it does not deal with things 'we can't yet do or begin to do', yet goes beyond the amount of realism she associates with the novel form. Oryx and Crake is a 2003 novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.

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