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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Jimmy himself even questions if Oryx as UnreliableNarrator is an issue. Was she both girl's or did she make that up?

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Jimmy himself even questions if Oryx as UnreliableNarrator is an issue. Was she both girl's girls or did she make that up?
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** Technology will kill us all! YouCanPanicNow!

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** Technology will kill us all! YouCanPanicNow![[MediaScaremongering Time to panic!]]!

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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Even before the actual apocalypse, the future presented is ''so goddamn bleak'' that it can be hard to get through the whole book.


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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Even before the actual apocalypse, the future presented is ''so goddamn bleak'' that it can be hard to get through the whole book.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Even before the actual apocalypse, the future presented is ''so goddamn bleak'' that it can be hard to get through the whole book.
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* WordOfGod: Atwood says that Crake AKA Glenn is heavily based on Canadian pianist Glenn Gould and has Asperger's Syndrome.

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* WordOfGod: Atwood says that Crake AKA Glenn is heavily based on Canadian pianist Glenn Gould and has Asperger's Syndrome.Syndrome.
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* WordOfGod: Atwood says that Crake AKA Glenn is based exactly on Canadian pianist Glenn Gould and has Asperger's Syndrome.

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* WordOfGod: Atwood says that Crake AKA Glenn is heavily based exactly on Canadian pianist Glenn Gould and has Asperger's Syndrome.
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** The effects of the BlyssPlus experiments, although some may fall into CrossesTheLineTwice territory.

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** The effects of the BlyssPlus [=BlyssPlus=] experiments, although some may fall into CrossesTheLineTwice territory.
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** Did Pilar give Crake the pills on purpose to let him kill off the human race?



* BadassDecay: Some think Toby suffers this in the third book. Others see it as she's so inexperienced with loving emotions that she's just finding problems and overeacting over Zeb.
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** What the Painballers use Amanda for.



* WordOfGod: Atwood says that Crake AKA Glenn is based exactly on Canadian pianist Glenn Gould and has Asperger's Syndrome.

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* WordOfGod: Atwood says that Crake AKA Glenn is based exactly on Canadian pianist Glenn Gould and has Asperger's Syndrome.
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** Did Pilar give Crake the pills on purpose to let him kill off the human race?


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* BadassDecay: Some think Toby suffers this in the third book. Others see it as she's so inexperienced with loving emotions that she's just finding problems and overeacting over Zeb.


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** What the Painballers use Amanda for.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Jimmy himself even questions if Oryx as UnreliableNarrator is an issue. Was she both girl's or did she make that up?
** On Crake's side there's how much of a chess master was he? Certain parts seem to imply he's been playing everyone, but some of these parts aren't ever confirmed outright.
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** The effects of the BlyssPlus experiments, although some may fall into CrossesTheLineTwice territory.
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** Oryx's backstory, in which she was a child SexSlave. This is not simply stated to the reader, either; instead, it takes up the better part of a chapter.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Lots.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Lots.Lots.
* WordOfGod: Atwood says that Crake AKA Glenn is based exactly on Canadian pianist Glenn Gould and has Asperger's Syndrome.
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* {{Squick}}: Some parts fall very much into this.

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* {{Squick}}: Some parts fall very much into this.this.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Lots.
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* SciFiGhetto: Margaret Atwood [[strike:insists]] once insisted that this isn't science fiction

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* SciFiGhetto: Margaret Atwood [[strike:insists]] once insisted that this isn't science fictionfiction, it's speculative fiction.
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** Technology will kill us all! YouCanPanicNow!
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* HilariousInHindsight: As of 2013 there is now lab-grown meat from stem cells.

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