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Margaret is a genius very few books capture my imagination as much as she doescrake and his wise words pretty much sum up humanity and all the wrong we dothe story is brilliantly written as snowman jimmy tells if his childhood in the compound his gradual learning of what they are really up to his bond with genius crake and the chaos that clever but damaged crake unleashesbut what i love the most is her vivid imaginationpigoons wolvogs the crakers chickinobs and happi cuppa to name a fewand how nearly she references in history and the inhumanity we perpetuate and how we are the onky race to not self regulatei kept on trying to explain this book to my kids this book deserves to be a gcse syllabusintelligent writer

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Too close to my own suspicions regarding big pharma and modern medical research

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The author lets you use your own intelligence to uncover the plot the sign posts are there but not overstated

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Two visions of the future one plausibly horrifying the other fantastically apocalyptic both told with oldfashioned storytelling panache

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The heart of this novel concerns itself with the very real dangers of dna manipulation and the possible outcome of unfettered and uncontrolled research and implementation in this area

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Link this with the never ending and grubby search for the almighty dollar and a dangerous cocktail is created

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Snowman thinks he might be the last human left on a postapocalyptic earth

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Sort of scifi sort of dystopia atwood calls it speculative fiction i suppose because what she has written isnt really too far off the mark from the real world