Oryx and Crake

Oryx and Crake at first felt like a science fiction genre. But reading through it, the story had more substance to it. It was less about the science and fiction, and more about the characters and their situations. Even the science presented in the book has to deal with morals, ethics, globalization, bio-terrorism and genetics. Snowman describes his past. Living in a utopian-fascist compound where genetic reengineering occurs, and how everything goes down hill, from his personal life to a wider scale and how he was part of it. The story brings up a lot of ethics in science, and culture. From the morals of genetic engineering to bio-terrorism and a little bit of eugenics. The story is pretty simple, but made interesting and complicated because of all the layered elements placed into the book that makes the reader think.