#oryx & crake

[mostlyghostie]

Third version of this bookshop print- a couple of people requesting custom book prints asked to put them into this background

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[parakavka]

anyone want to rec me some science fiction/speculative fiction books?

[quotespile]

If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

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[cr4ke]

i think i might be the last oryx and crake fan on earth.

[bracketsoffear]

Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood) "Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey—with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake—through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining."

In essence, it is a slow train wreck of a book where a man after experiencing the apocalypse and the rise of a new "human" race slowly and in detail describes every single thing that went wrong with society before it collapsed, including classist divisions, the unmitigated proliferation of the internet, plagues that started with wildlife and diminished food sources before attacking humans, climate change, a distinct distancing between the humanities and the sciences that characterized the humanities as useless and bothersome and overemphasized science to the point that science basically was allowed to rule the world unchecked by ethics or morals, all encompassed by the main character's particular life story as a witness to the atrocities he could've stopped if he had ever truly understood and chosen to stop them. All in all, very Extinction in a "we destroyed ourselves and life continued without us and all I did was watch and now nothing will ever be the same"."

The Red Tower (Thomas Ligotti) "Short enough of a story to just link directly!

Quick propaganda: This is a cosmic horror story about a factory that is presumably alive, definitely malevolent, and actively at war with the equally hostile natural world around it! It produces and distributes strange artifacts of a world hostile to humans, including "an ornate music box that, when opened, emitted a brief gurgling or sucking sound in emulation of a dying individual’s death rattle… [and] a pocket watch in a gold casing which opened to reveal a curious timepiece whose numerals were represented by tiny quivering insects while the circling “hands” were reptilian tongues, slender and pink."

It is a story of conflict between man's creation (now set free to run unfettered) and the natural world, and of horrible, unimaginable life struggling to be born in the awful depths of industry, with the dire conclusion that it is developing far worse and more complex creations to inflict upon the world."

[redsnerdden]

Utah Begins The School Year By Banning 13 Books, Including Works by Margaret Atwood and Judy Blume

Utah Begins The School Year By Banning 13 Books, Including Works by Margaret Atwood and Judy Blume #Books #Politics #Censorship #Writers #Creators

It’s that time of the year again, kids going back to school and as always, we have another statewide book ban on our hands. That’s right, the Utah State Board of Education has begun the school year by ordering schools to begin removing 13 books that include works by Judy Blume, Rupi Kaur, Sarah J. Maas, Margaret Atwood, and other authors for content that the state has deemed to be pornographic or…

[752winters]

albums i like to fall asleep to sometimes + why

(in no particular order, i just thought that compiling a list would be fun & a good look into my music taste (as if anybody asked for it))

also kinda doubles as a topster

crusher - jeremy zucker (super solid pop album imo, the mix is very soft and easy to relax to)

speed run (or spiral) - frost children (it’s very fun and silly but also the sound that lulu prost is able to achieve itches a certain part of my brain that nothing else does)

apple - a.g. cook (i don’t know how i do this actually but it just soothes my brain as well)

marriage - oryx & crake (just a brilliant album from a band i take pride in being the only person i know who knows about them)

floral green - title fight (classic)

hey what - low (i love noise & the harmony that only a married couple can make)

e - ecco2k (beautiful and exquisite and somewhat eerie but perfect for super late at night)

thank u, next - ariana grande (nostalgia factor + general ethereality)

aldn’s whole discography tbh (don’t know why, don’t ask)

the battle at gardens gate - greta van fleet (very pretty & very solid rock record)

something to give each other - troye sivan (dancey but also insightful and also produced and mixed beautifully)

[headknight-oh]

We are living the dystopia are ancestors warned us about

[hpldreads]

Climate Fiction, or Cli-Fi, is a branch of literature that deals with the effects of climate change on human society. Here are a few of the Climate Fiction books we have in our collection.

The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Life as We Knew It by Beth Pfeffer

[twnpkdinhighschool]

Oryx and Crake is the ultimate academic’s dystopian novel bc it’s about two guys who suck but the STEM prodigy is an active threat to global society while the lib arts guy is both genuinely relatable and morally disgusting

[thirdactkerfuffle]

Oryx and Crake centers around two dramatically different worldviews.

On the one hand you have Snowman, who embodies complete passivity towards the status quo. He desperately avoids taking any personal responsibility for his role in society.

On the other hand, Crake embodies a desire to overthrow a less-than-ideal status quo through any means necessary. He takes unilateral responsibility for society upon himself.

And they both suck.

[quotespile]

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.

Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

[litandlifequotes]

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

[bracketsoffear]

Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood) "Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey—with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake—through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining."

In essence, it is a slow train wreck of a book where a man after experiencing the apocalypse and the rise of a new "human" race slowly and in detail describes every single thing that went wrong with society before it collapsed, including classist divisions, the unmitigated proliferation of the internet, plagues that started with wildlife and diminished food sources before attacking humans, climate change, a distinct distancing between the humanities and the sciences that characterized the humanities as useless and bothersome and overemphasized science to the point that science basically was allowed to rule the world unchecked by ethics or morals, all encompassed by the main character's particular life story as a witness to the atrocities he could've stopped if he had ever truly understood and chosen to stop them. All in all, very Extinction in a "we destroyed ourselves and life continued without us and all I did was watch and now nothing will ever be the same"."

The Machine Stops (E.M. Forster) "It's set in a future in which seemingly everybody lives inside individual rooms named "cells", under the Earth's surface, which is deemed hostile and uninhabitable. All their needs are attended to by an unimaginably complex mechanism called the Machine. " Set in a disturbing future where the earth is uninhabitable and humanity is isolated and ruled by machine and well look at the tile. Was talked about in my Apocalyptic Literature course at university. Spoiler: Machine Stops and humanity seemingly dies out."