Are people thrown into hope? Or despair? There is no answer. The sentences in Margaret Atwood's novel Oryx and Crake seem fearful in depicting the world of the future-for there is no heaven there; the future is terrifying.

This is the story of Jimmy, who calls himself Snowman, a young man who sees and interprets the world through video games and pornography; he might be the last human on the earth that has been modified by genetic engineering and