Oryx and Crake: an unsettling story about technology

I've been a big fan of Margaret Atwood ever since I read Cat's Eye more than a dozen years ago. Recently I read Oryx and Crake and found it unsettling and a bit frightening. It's a story about the end of human civilization, and perhaps our own species. The end comes as a result of genetic and biological tinkering with animals and humans that seems only a few steps away from recently reported genetic manipulation and cloning experiments. A few unintended consequences and this story doesn't seem like fiction.

And although it seems against our (my) human nature, I fear we will need to learn to think before we act, as we build a world increasingly interdependent on our own technical and scientific creations.

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