Where are we headed? Speculative fiction like Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood often shows us emergent possibilities based on features of the present. Atwood’s novel is an eirie close future where bio-engineering and global corporate ghettoization have created a dystopia waiting for the “perfect storm” of a plague. I finihsed Orynx and Crake this … Continue reading Atwood: Oryx and Crake (and Snowman)