Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility. 'In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. An adman who's a sad man; a jealous lover who's in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remember the past.

In this post apocalyptic novel, we follow Snowman's story, a cross between where he is now, and how he ended up here.  Its a novel where Atwood throws in as much moral thought as she can to the destruction of man, and how our lives and lifestyles can destroy us. She includes topics that are very much on the forefront of modern technology and applies the theory of what can go wrong with it.

Topics in which she covers includes, cloning - to make the perfect species for the world, for eating, for pets. She also gets the reader to discover the idea of the perfect race, or the idea that we are overpopulated and their is not enough resource to go round, what could be a solution to this.

I thought it was a fantastic book, although slightly dark and depressing. I could not put this book down (I read it in a day). It was very thought provoking and gave a great insight of a possible future based on reality today.  Atwood is a great writer, and this is the second of her books I have read - (the Handmaids Tale was the first) and I really like her sense of style and genre of stories.