In an interview, Atwood has said that O & C poses these questions: What if we continue down the road we're on? How slippery is the slope? What are our saving graces? Who's got the will to stop us? Her

Returning to those previously dystopic novel, Atwood's Handmaid Tale, Oryx and Crake presents a very different scenario than a theocracy, that novel. Oryx and Crake explores developments in science and technology in areas such as transplantation and genetic engineering, in particular the creation of transgenic animals, such as "wolvogs" (with the advent of domestic dogs, pit bulls perversity, and savage nature of wolves), "rakunks (PET-like hybrids raccoons and skunks), and "pigoons" (pig organs form of balls are bred to grow extra organs for human transplantion). This company has contributed at the commercialization of life, the commercialization of sex and all forms of pornography, and widens the gap between rich and poor. Oryx and Crake addresses social, economic, scientific and ethical implications of such technology. One of the favorite games Craik is an online game called Extinctathon, trivia game, which requires a huge knowledge of extinct animals and plants. Use of code names Thickney (Jimmy) and Crake (Glenn), they both play in their teens. Not until they are both at university, that Jimmy learns that Crake has moved the game to become a grandmaster of Extinctathon.

On another trip to the dark underbelly of the web, they come through the Asian child pornography websites, where Jimmy hit and has the eyes of a young girl. Unknown Jimmy, Crake similarly affected at the sight of this girl. Two male characters pursue different educational paths: Crake attends respected Watson-Crick Institute, where he studied advanced biotechnology, but Jimmy ends hated Martha Graham Academy, where students studying literature and the humanities, who do not appreciate the ...