Oryx and Crake is a 2003 novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. 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 …
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Oryx and Crake is a 2003 novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. 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. It focuses on a lone character called Snowman, who finds himself in a bleak situation with only creatures called Crakers to keep him company. 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". The book was first published by McClelland and Stewart. It was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, as well as for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction. Oryx and Crake is the first of the MaddAddam trilogy, followed by The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013).
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Oryx and Crake
389 pages
English language
Published Sept. 12, 2004 by Anchor Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-385-72167-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 55029250
Oryx und Crake
paperback, 384 pages
German language
Published Oct. 2, 2017 by Piper Verlag.
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- 978-3-492-31131-1Copied ISBN!
Oryx and Crake
448 pages
English language
Published Sept. 12, 2013 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-349-00406-8Copied ISBN!
Oryx and Crake
378 pages
English language
Published Sept. 12, 2003 by Bloombsury.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7475-6259-7Copied ISBN!
Le dernier homme
396 pages
French language
Published Feb. 24, 2005 by Robert Laffont.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-221-10101-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 60427764
The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam
English language
Published Nov. 14, 2013
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- 978-0-345-80875-2Copied ISBN!
Oryx und Crake
380 pages
German language
Published April 4, 2003 by Berlin Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-8270-0014-9Copied ISBN!
Le dernier homme
French language
- ISBN:
- 978-2-264-04315-3Copied ISBN!
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