Where can you find cuddly raccoon-skunk hybrids, fluorescent rabbits, and vicious “pigoons” out for blood? In the pages of the #SciFriBookClub’s summer pick! This August, join Ira and the SciFri team ...

Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood’s gothic tale of biotechnological disaster, spends most of its 376 pages building up to the revelation of What Happened. Her amiable narrator, Snowman, knows What ...

Atlanta’s musical identity is spread across many disciplines; it’s a hip-hop capital, a bastion for garage/punk/art rock, a singer-songwriter’s haven. Despite the lack of a distinct indie-rock or ...

Margaret Atwood has always taken a jaundiced view of human nature. Back when her mordant observations about marriage and other relations between the sexes had her marked down as a feminist, she took ...

Don’t call the novel Oryx and Crake a work of sci-fi. Author Margaret Atwood prefers the term “speculative fiction”—she says the things she writes about depict a plausible version of the future.

Oryx and Crake, a novel by Margaret Atwood, visits real-life analogues in an unforgettable journey. Husband and wife Ryan Peoples and Rebekah Goode-Peoples of Atlanta’s Oryx & Crake also embark on the ...

Atwood has visited the future before, in her dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale. In her latest, the future is even bleaker. The triple whammy of runaway social inequality, genetic technology and ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The best future fictions are deeply embedded in the present. They prod our existing fears into the light and build a dystopic world ...

When word got around that Margaret Atwood’s 11th novel was going to be a work of speculative fiction‚ her readers probably hoped for the best but feared the worst. The best would be a revisiting of ...

The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, slowly starving to death and mourning the loss of his beloved ...