Oryx and Crake

Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
read: circa 2004

Never Let Me Go reminded me quite a bit of Oryx and Crake, a book I read a few years ago. Like Never Let Me Go, Oryx and Crake takes place in a semi-dystopian alternate reality. Both books also deal with the subject of genetic engineering. The scope of the novels is a bit different; the narrator of Oryx and Crake is involved in the destruction of the world, the creation of new beings, and the establishment of the dystopia, while the narrator of Never Let Me Go is a pawn who never quite sees the full picture of what the world was and what it has become. I enjoyed both books, and I'm looking forward to reading more Atwood as I work through my reading lists.