Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam #1)

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cetaps.researcherPereira, Teresa
dc.contributor.authorAtwood, Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2/29/24 11:29
dc.date.available2/29/24 11:29
dc.date.issued2003
dc.description.abstractMoving back and forth between a post-apocalyptic present and a pre-apocalypse past, Oryx and Crake follows a man called Snowman, formerly known as Jimmy, who might be the sole survivor of a pandemic caused by a hit drug called BlyssPluss. In a world controlled by multinational corporations deliberately isolated from the outside world through walled compounds, bioengineers have become one of the most respected members of society, growing human organs in labs or genetically engineering hybrid animals. One of these bioengineers is Snowman’s late friend Crake, originally known as Glenn, the creator of the BlyssPluss wonder pill, which was designed to improved users’ libido, while also secretly making them infertile and sick with a contagious virus. Snowman, unaware of the drug’s true purposes and of Crake’s intentions when developing it, despite helping to market it, is immune to the virus, as was Crake. While most of the world’s population has been wiped out by the BlyssPluss pandemic, Snowman becomes responsible for the Children of Crake, the genetically engineered childlike people created by Crake when he was still alive, who are not affected by the contagious virus and who walk around naked.
dc.description.authorMargaret Atwood (1939-) was born in Ottawa and brought up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto, Canada. Published in more than forty-five countries, Atwood attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto and Radcliffe College, from which she respectively received her undergraduate degree and her MA. She’s the author of over fifty books, several of which have received numerous prizes, such as The Testaments (2019) and The Blind Assassin (2000), both Booker Prize winners.
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dc.genrescience fiction
dc.genrespeculative fiction
dc.genrepost-apocalyptic fiction
dc.genredystopia
dc.genreecofiction
dc.identifier.citationAtwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. McClelland & Stewart, 2003.
dc.identifier.isbn0-7710-0868-6
dc.identifier.urihttps://cetapsrepository.letras.up.pt/id/cetaps/114122
dc.publisherMcClelland & Stewart
dc.publisher.cityToronto
dc.relation.translationAtwood, Margaret. Órix e Crex: O Último Homem. Translation by Ana Maria Chaves and Ana Mafalda Costa, Asa, 2006.
dc.rightsmetadata only access
dc.subjectgenetic engineering
dc.subjectextinction
dc.subjectpost-apocalypse
dc.subjectdystopia
dc.subjectscience fiction
dc.subjectecofiction
dc.titleOryx and Crake (MaddAddam #1)
dc.typebook
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person.familyNameAtwood
person.givenNameMargaret
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