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Consider the other books by Margaret Atwood in the MaddAddam trilogy (of which Oryx and Crake is the first book): The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam.
Consider other books by Margaret Atwood, including The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin.
Consider other works of speculative fiction, including Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Phillip K. Dick's Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep?
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The Question and Answer section for Oryx and Crake is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
There is a foreshadowing of the events to come in the use of extinct animals as nicknames for two of the three main characters. Oryx and Crake both received their nicknames from a list of extinct creatures. The names of those working inside of the...
The CorpSeCorps serve as a generalized police force. They guard compounds, schools, and other segregated areas from both disease and unwanted individuals.
The CorpSeCorps are also in charge of investigating those who are anti-government. Because...
Many of the games that they played were related to war and/or the various means of destructing humankind. One game, Extinctathon, led to the formation of their codenames—Crake and Thickney—derived from two extinct Australian birds. The game...
