Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood’s gothic tale of biotechnological disaster, spends most of its 376 pages building up to the revelation of What Happened. Her amiable narrator, Snowman, knows What ...

Margaret Atwood has always taken a jaundiced view of human nature. Back when her mordant observations about marriage and other relations between the sexes had her marked down as a feminist, she took ...

Investment company Crake Asset Management LLP (Current Portfolio) buys The Walt Disney Co, Marriott International Inc, Meta Platforms Inc, ON Semiconductor Corp, Delta Air Lines Inc, sells Amazon.com ...

Don’t call the novel Oryx and Crake a work of sci-fi. Author Margaret Atwood prefers the term “speculative fiction”—she says the things she writes about depict a plausible version of the future.

Baillon's crake, Porzana pusilla (protonym, Rallus pusillus), Pallas, 1776, also known as the African spotted crake or as the lesser spotted crake, as the marsh crake, pygmy crake, tiny crake or dwarf ...

Slaty-legged crake, Rallina eurizonoides (synonyms, Rallina euryzonoides and Rallina minahasa; protonym, Gallinula eurizonoïdes), Lafresnaye, 1845, also known as the banded crake or as the banded rail ...