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Every day we get a little closer to an Oryx and Crake reality.

• stevenwoo 2y ago
  In what way? Spoilers for the third book, but my recollection is the main plot points were genetically engineering was very far advanced over even today so we genetically engineer a lot of animals for toys/food, many natural animals go extinct possibly due to these genetically engineered hybrids, one guy is able to make a sort of passive cat/ape/human hybrid he views as superior to humans to replace humans and to top it off makes a virus to kill every human on earth except him and his friends and the tame cat/ape humanoids.
  • moritzwarhier 2y ago
    Yeah it's a bit of a stretch at the moment. But the books also just have interesting descriptions of life in her imagined dystopian post- and pre-apocalyptic society. It does seem sometimes that things are moving in such a direction, but the details of her "speculative fiction" might not match. For me it was Ozempic recently, that reminded me of the trilogy's pre-apocalyptic society.