Oryx and Crake book review

 This week I read the novel Oryx and Crake. In my opinion, this is a profound and meaningful novel. This novel contains a lot of discussion about humanity, sex, culture and genetic variation, and a lot of language about sex and biology. 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.

 

In the novel, the author expresses her extreme concern about the misuse of biotechnology in the future world. Like so many western works of science fiction, the future presented in this book is a bleak, apocalyptic vision of human society: literature and art have been scorned as never before, and only science and technology have been favored. This is actually indicative of a trend that we now see quite clearly. To be more specific, all diseases will be eradicated, but the big companies that make drugs create viruses and spread them in order to keep people buying them. If anyone tries to blow the whistle on such a plot, death will await him.

 

The book tells the story of a biological genetic genius named Crake who inserted the virus into the pill. He hoped to make a profit by selling vaccines, but the result was that people all over the world died quickly and massively in a short time, leaving only a few survivors who stayed away from the people. In the end, the earth is still alive, and plants and animals survive with their own strong vitality. Crake leads his elite team of gene grafting to create a brand new human model. This is undoubtedly a disaster for mankind. To tell you the truth, this novel makes me very uncomfortable, especially today when the Corona Coronavirus is epidemic. It is now easy and even cheap for researchers in virus labs to make viruses by hand. I feel that the fictional scenes described by the author are actually happening in our lives. The future of mankind is in our own hands. The benefits brought by technology are huge, but they are also accompanied by endless hidden dangers. If not properly handled, the world may indeed turn into what is described in the book.

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