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Reviews and Recommendations
We've comprehensively compiled reviews of Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) from the world's leading experts.
Matthew Taylor Oryx and Crake is here because it’s about the logical conclusion of a whole set of processes that we could have called progress. In my lecture I talked about the logic of progress: the logic of science and technology, the logic of markets, the logic of bureaucracy. And if you want a wonderful dystopian vision of what happens if you take these forward without any recourse to ethical considerations – without asking what progress represents – then Oryx and Crake does that. This novel was recommended by Karen Buck MP and it has influenced me as a wonderful account of a world run by large biotech... (Source)
Tim @Realscientists The theme of hopelessness was the most profound I thought, as the narrative rattles through the devastatingly self-conscious decay of the main character's mind, the echoes of his life writhing and senescing inside his withering brain. Please read this great book :) https://t.co/1XVpw92bbb (Source)
Rankings by Category
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) is ranked in the following categories:
- #41 in 21st Century
- #34 in Adult Series
- #13 in Biotechnology
- #10 in Canada
- #31 in Climate Change
- #70 in Diseases
- #24 in Dystopian
- #13 in End Of The World
- #45 in Engineering
- #52 in Environmentalism
- #39 in Futurism
- #37 in Genetics
- #13 in Global Warming
- #73 in Literary
- #30 in Mommy
- #63 in Nerdy
- #10 in Post-Apocalyptic
- #57 in Science Fiction
- #90 in Science Fiction Fantasy
- #47 in Utopian