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Although she’s now a determinedly literary person, Atwood keeps up with the latest scientific developments, which she says is partly out of a sense of family loyalty. She reads Scientific American and other popular science publications...
...Atwood says her scientific background helped her when she began work on Oryx and Crake. The book, which reviewers have likened to the best of Orwell, Swift and Huxley, is narrated by one of the survivors of a genetic holocaust...
...Atwood invents hybrid creatures like pigoons, the disastrous fusing of pig and human DNA, genetic engineering companies with names like HelthWyzer and a computer game called Kwiktime Osama. Although the names are fanciful, many of the details are based on real science, which is what makes Atwood’s cautionary tale so frighteningly plausible...
Although such ideas are now just gleams in the eye of some real estate developer, Atwood is betting that it will someday become a reality. The novel’s website boasts dozens of real-life headlines—from the Times to the Post to Scientific American—that inspired specific events in the novel...
...book, Atwood says she drew on her studies of English literature at the University of Toronto. She had started out studying Philosophy, but says she hated logical positivism and dropped the course...