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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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