![]() ![]() Eco-groups like God’s Gardeners rise in reaction to the companies and their lapse of morality, maintaining “older” ways of life (keeping bees, gardening, etc.) Since all this doesn’t seem far off at all, the novels maintain a sharp sense of realism, even in the more absurd parts. The whole world of the novels is a future wherein biological manufacturing is the norm and companies serve as the main units of life, housing families in compounds. ![]() I mention this only because it seems obvious that we need Snowman to contrast with one of the more prominent narrators in the latter two, Toby, a female Gardener. Oryx and Crake is Atwood’s only novel featuring a male, first-person protagonist (named Snowman) the other two novels vacillate between voices, with the third in the series having the most variety of narrators. As always, I aim for brevity when I write for this site, so pardon my simplifications. ![]() I read all three books over the course of a week and a half, finishing just fifteen minutes prior to the composition of this piece. ![]() Facebook was blowing up recently with news of Darren Aronofsky adapting the three books into an HBO miniseries, so I decided it was time. I was given the next two books as gifts over the years as they came out, but would set them gently next to the first, like glass miniatures on a shelf. I read Oryx and Crake when it came out in 2003, certainly never anticipating two follow-up novels. ![]()
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