{"id":652,"date":"2010-04-19T21:42:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T05:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2015-01-24T09:47:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T17:47:04","slug":"review-oryx-and-crake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Review: Oryx and Crake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Margaret Atwood&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=641\"><em>The Year of the Flood<\/em><\/a>, I needed to go back and read the first book in the series in the hopes of having some blanks filled in as well as seeing how the characters from the second book fit in the first.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the <em>Oryx and Crake<\/em>, even knowing the broad outlines of how it came out.\u00a0 While I was looking for the appearance of the characters from <em>Flood<\/em>, I was really surprised by how tangential their involvement was here.\u00a0 This was a mixed bag.\u00a0 On the one hand, it makes each book a more distinct experience; on the other it heightened the feeling that these few characters more than represented the whole society, but completely were the whole society.\u00a0 The same feeling of an unrealistically cramped world was here.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there is plenty to enjoy in <em>Oryx and Crake<\/em>.\u00a0 The same large issues shape a world populated by real characters.\u00a0 This is a world we may yet see, right through to its end.\u00a0 Though there will probably be more people in it.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Margaret Atwood&#8217;s The Year of the Flood, I needed to go back and read the first book in the series in the hopes of having some blanks filled in as well as seeing how the characters from the second book fit in the first. I enjoyed the Oryx and Crake, even knowing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}