Four corporate compounds - OrganInc, HelthWyzer, AnooYoo and RejoovenEsence - provide backdrops for the action in Oryx and Crake. What services does each corporation offer? Are the corporations evil, or do their services simply fall short of their intended goals?

At academies such as Watson-Crick and Martha Graham, number people get separated from word people. How does focusing on one intellectual aspect or the other affect how Crake and Jimmy's personalities develop after high school?

Margret Atwood says that Oryx and Crake is not science fiction. What are the elements of science fiction, and do you think that this novel does fit into that category of writing?

Crake has destroyed humankind but created a species that is superior to man in many ways. Is he a hero or a villain?

As the only known human survivor of JUVE, Jimmy has grown accustomed to life...