So now it does.” The book’s “spider goat” was also “up and running,” she said. “For instance, the luminous green rabbit-that was made for a magician who wanted to pull a rabbit out of a hat, but he wanted the rabbit to glow in the dark.
“The things in the book that people may think are very weird-and they may think that I just made them up-some of them already existed when I was writing the book,” she said. The Booker Prize-winner was also quick to point out that many of her novel’s seemingly far-fetched inventions had, in fact, already become reality. “We can see far enough into the future to know that we can’t go on the way we’ve been going forever without inventing, possibly, a lot of new and different things”-specifically alternative energy sources. “I think, for the first time in human history, we see where we might go,” she said. The prospect of limited resources was forefront in Atwood’s mind when she pictured the future. Well, they don’t need a lot of resources.” So they’re not unhappy over all of the things that we ourselves get unhappy about. While Crakers still exhibit many of the traits we think of as quintessentially human-they dream, make music, and encounter theological issues-Atwood explained that, “Crake designed them to avoid the problems that we have as a species. “But best of all, they will never have any sexual jealousy, because unlike us-we’re serially monogamous-they are seasonal, like lots of other animals and fish and birds.” They’re completely vegetarian, and they can eat grass and leaves, unlike us,” she said. They’ve got built-in mosquito repellant-another plus. “For instance, they’ve got built-in sunblock-that would be a plus. “They’re genetically engineered to be better than we,” Atwood explained. He lives near a group of human-like, genetically-modified creatures called “Crakers,” named for their creator, the brilliant scientist (and Snowman’s childhood friend) Crake. The book is told from the perspective of Snowman, the seemingly lone human survivor of a mysterious catastrophe that has wiped out mankind.
“And one of the things we can do as human beings is we make jokes and we laugh.” The book, which she preferred to call “speculative fiction” rather than sci-fi, may be about “bleak times,” as she put it, “but lots of times have been bleak,” she said. Margaret Atwood had a sense of humor about her post-apocalyptic story Oryx and Crakewhen she first spoke with Ira Flatow about it in April 2004. “This is a fun-filled, joke-packed adventure novel about the possible downfall of the human race.”
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