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...member of the Sulzberger family, the press dynasty which controls the New York Times, writing is in Golden’s blood. But he rejected the family formula for success when he declined to go into journalism, choosing the unfamiliar route of fiction instead...
...March 2000, the height of the technology bubble, and Ulrich Schumacher wanted to drive a point home to the world's investors. His semiconductor company, Infineon Technologies, was about to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Like another Schumacher - Formula One star Michael - the CEO is serious about racing, so he cruised down Wall Street in a F-1 car. Infineon's stock sped out of the starting blocks on March 13, 2000 and hit a high on the Frankfurt exchange of €92.50 in June. Then demand for semiconductors slumped, and Infineon hit a slick...
...Snowman rewinds his life, we learn that much of this strange turn of events is traceable to Crake, a boyhood friend who becomes a serenely brilliant geneticist at a powerful bioengineering firm. His job is to find a formula for immortality. But Crake has larger plans. He thinks of the human race as a boundless opportunity for creative meddling. Oryx is an Asian girl whom Jimmy first glimpses on a child-porn website, then meets years later through Crake...
...vision of a heavenly kingdom on earth, though not his vision of heavenly sex. "We deserve the warmth of baths," the hero concludes in an Istanbul spa after a life of struggle. "May the days be aimless. Do not advance the action according to a plan." A satisfying formula for life, perhaps, but not for writing a book. So how - and why - did a gang of novelistic neophytes pull it all off? "We had a five-year plan like the Soviet Union's, only ours was successful," says co-author Bui, visiting London last week for the U.K. launch...
...practices. (Don't ask.) As Snowman rewinds his life, we learn how things have come to this strange turn. Much of it turns out to be traceable to Crake, a boyhood friend who becomes a serenely brilliant geneticist at a powerful bioengineering firm. His job is to find a formula for immortality. But Crake has larger plans. He thinks of the human race as a boundless opportunity for creative meddling. Oryx is an Asian girl whom Jimmy first glimpses on a child-porn website, then meets years later through Crake. Literary fiction is all about nuance. Science fiction...