Predicting one apocalypse is unlucky. Guessing two makes you wonder what MargaretAtwood knows that we don’t. In honor of its 20th anniversary, Ceilidhann looks back at her other dystopian masterpiece, OryxAndCrake.
. Margaret Atwood’s dystopian drama about a fascistic takeover of America that results in the total stripping away of women’s autonomy slowly went from being a cautionary tale to an instructional guide for right-wing abusers. Republicans’ utter decimation of reproductive freedoms across the country cannot help but evoke images of Gilead, red smocks, and Aunt Lydias.
Many a sci-fi novel has explored the notion of science going “too far”, whether it’s through genetic abuse, technological warfare, or good old-fashioned robots running riot. Humanity has never fully embraced the mind-boggling revelations of progress, fearing that playing God will result in our fated extermination. Atwood doesn’t avoid this fate inhad to be deadly serious in its worldbuilding, MaddAddam revels in the proud stupidity of corporate supremacy.
Jimmy and Crake’s America is one of a tiered societal divide where the privileged live in gated communities and eat food that was once adjacent to organic produce. Companies with names like RejoovenEsense, HelthWyzer, and CorpSeCorps dominate every aspect of living and create genetic abominations such as ChickieNobs, mutations of chickens that are all breast and no brain for the purposes of consumption.
The Oryx of the title is a mysterious woman who Jimmy and Crake first saw on a child abuse website they perused out of adolescent boredom, totally numb to any sort of sensory bliss. As adults, Crake hires her to be his live-in mistress and a kindly teacher to the Crakers, his pet project at RejoovenEsense. Notably for an Atwood novel, Oryx and Crake has a majority male cast, and Oryx, its reluctant heroine, is a cipher to its beleaguered protagonist.
And then there’s Crake himself, the almighty leader and destroyer of the human race whose aims seem curiously casual. He’s no cacking mad scientist or brooding Marvel villain with a disdain for his own kind. Rather, the Crakers and his plan to replace humans with them feels like a troll move from a smart guy who just wants to see what would happen. He is the corporate scientist made flesh, one who participates in the ruin of the planet rather than its rehabilitation.
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