- Alternative Character Interpretation: Jimmy himself even questions if Oryx as Unreliable Narrator is an issue. Was she both girls 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.
- Anvilicious: Playing God is not a good idea.
- Technology will kill us all! Time to panic!!
- Hilarious in Hindsight: As of 2013 there is now lab-grown meat from stem cells.
- Nightmare Fuel: all of it. seriously.
- Sci Fi Ghetto: Margaret Atwood once insisted that this isn't science fiction, it's speculative fiction.
- Squick: Some parts fall very much into this.
- Oryx's backstory, in which she was a child Sex Slave. This is not simply stated to the reader, either; instead, it takes up the better part of a chapter.
- The effects of the BlyssPlus experiments, although some may fall into Crosses the Line Twice territory.
- Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Even before the actual apocalypse, the future presented is so goddamn bleak that it can be hard to get through the whole book.
- What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: Lots.
- Word of God: Atwood says that Crake AKA Glenn is heavily based on Canadian pianist Glenn Gould and has Asperger's Syndrome.
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