Atwood has long since establish.ed herself as one of the best writers in English today, but Oryx and Crake may well be her best work yet Brilliant, provocative, sumptuous and downright terrifying.

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With the same lethal blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her now classic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity--and its present. Humanity here equals Snowman, who lives in a tree because genetically engineered wolvogs and pigoons make the ground too dangerous. His only company are the beautiful, placid creatures who have replaced Homo sapiens.

To tell how this came about, Atwood re-creates a time much like our own,when Snowman was named Jimmy. When he loved an elusive, degraded girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake, who wanted to correct some glitches in the human experiment. Out of their relationship comes a book that is at once a nightmarish revision of Genesis and an all-too-plausible postscript to Apocalypse.

1 Mango / 5

  Flotsam / 8

  Voice / 13

2 Bonfire/ 19

 Organlnc Farms / 27

  Lunch / 35

3 Nooners / 43

  Downpour / 51

4 Rakunk / 57

  Hammer / 70

  Crake / 83

  Brainfrizz / 92

  HottTotts / 106

5 Toast/ 115

  Fish / 120

  Bottle / 128

6 Oryx / 137

  Birdcall / 149

  Roses / 155

  Pixieland Jazz / 164

7 Sveltana / 179

  Purring / 188

  Blue / 199

  So Yummie / 211

  Happicuppa / 217

  Applied Rhetoric / 225

  Asperger's U. / 234

  Wolvogs / 242

  Hypothetical / 251

  Extinctathon / 259

  Hike / 267

  RejoovenEsense / 274

  Twister / 283

10 Vulturizing / 291

  AnooYoo / 300

  Garage / 305

  Gripless /310

11 Piggoons / 319

Radio / 324

Rampart / 331

12 Pleebcrawl / 341

BlyssPluss / 350

MaddAddam / 358

Paradice / 362

Crake in love / 369

Takeout / 382

Airlock / 388

13 Bubble / 397

Scribble / 401

Remnant / 414

14 Idol / 425

Sermon / 433

15 Footprint / 439