Week 13: Literary Speculation


Oryx and Crake is bai I asked to read in the ib second year English class. This book shares many similarities with Brave New World, both of which are future science fiction and biology novels. The novels contain many discussions on humanity, sex, art/culture, and genetic variation, as well as many language descriptions of sex and biology. It's a very interesting prophetic book, and the language is very classical and intriguing.

The chapters are very interesting, one chapter is about the present, one chapter is about the future, and the main plot is in even chapters.

There are also a lot of words coined in the novel: pigoon, wolvog, Pleebland, etc. Bogus, bug and other bogus words are often used in this book as future common words
I think the writing style and language of this book are very new, and it looks like Brave New world in terms of themes. The plots in the past have the feeling of the guardian in the wheat field, and the shadow of Robinson Crusoe in the wandering (singular chapters). The book's appeal for parental responsibility, as well as criticisms of the dangers and hierarchies of biological and genetic science, are classic. It's a dystopian novel.

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