What would happen if the reins of progress slipped from our hands? Nothing will ever look the same again.
BBC Interview with Margaret Atwood	What if we continue down the road we're already on? How slippery is the slope? What are our saving graces? Who's got the will to stop us?”--Atwood

“Like The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake is a speculative fiction, not a science fiction proper. It contains no intergalactic space travel, no teleportation, no Martians. As with The Handmaid's Tale, it invents nothing we haven't already invented or started to invent. Every novel begins with a what if, and then sets forth its axioms." from and essay by Atwood http://www.randomhouse.com/features/atwood/

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