Screaming Penguin

I just want to point out that Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood is one of the most powerful books I have read in years. The Handmaids Tale was pretty much required reading when I was in high school, and I have always been a fan, but I can't say enough about this book. If you read the jacket, you will see comparisons to Orwell and Huxley. These are certainly warranted and there are small allusory bits that echo 1984 and Brave New World throughout the book. "Crake" however, is something completely different and very much the same, simultaneously. It has all the enlightened futurism of a Gibson book and all the social commentary of Huxley, while still being so amazingly emotionally charged. Seriously, read this book.