Zana’s Reviews > Oryx and Crake > Status Update

"The women are carrying his weekly fish, grilled the way he’s taught them and wrapped in leaves. He can smell it, he’s starting to drool. They bring the fish forward, put it on the ground in front of him...."

Is this motherfucker a cult leader

"This was how the two of them first saw Oryx. She was only about eight, or she looked eight. They could never find out for certain how old she’d been then. Her name wasn’t Oryx, she didn’t have a name. She was just another little girl on a porno site."

Oh

"Or they might watch hedsoff.com, which played live coverage of executions in Asia. There they could see enemies of the people being topped with swords in someplace that looked like China, while thousands of spectators cheered...."

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I know this is an apocalyptic world and all but I keep picturing the pet rakunk as the bidoof pokemon with its cute goofy teeth 🦫

"...the dozen or so ravaged hopefuls who had volunteered themselves as subjects, paying no fees but signing away their rights to sue, had come out looking like the Mould Creature from Outer Space – uneven in tone, greenish brown, and peeling in ragged strips."

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"The teacher had been a shambling neo-con reject from the heady days of the legendary dot.com bubble, back in prehistory."

I'm unironically loving the term "neocon reject"

"...Still, they’re amazingly attractive, these children – each one naked, each one perfect, each one a different skin colour – chocolate, rose, tea, butter, cream, honey – but each with green eyes. Crake’s aesthetic."

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