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    Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake

    Margaret Atwood on her nightmare novel about the biotechnological future...

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Aug 7, 2003 • 30m Listen

    Is it science fiction? Well, no-call it futuristic satire; compare it with Gulliver's Travels; notice the real ineptness of this Eden's new Adam. There! Now you've got the gist of this conversation about Margaret Atwood's latest, Oryx and Crake (Doubleday).

    Read an excerpt from Oryx and Crake.

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      Michael Silverblatt

      host, 'Bookworm'

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      Margaret Atwood

      author of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Testaments”

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