![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even in Snowman’s boyhood there were luminous green rabbits, though they weren’t this big and they hadn’t yet slipped their cages and bred with the wild populations, and becomes a nuisance.-from Oryx and Crake, chapter 5 In the half-light the rabbit looks soft and almost translucent, like a piece of Turkish delight as if you could suck off its fur like sugar. It glows in the dusk, a greenish glow filched from the iridicytes of a deep-sea jellyfish in some long-ago experiment. Can you think of any more? Eduardo Kac’s “GFP Bunny.” Credit: Chrystelle Fontaine Green Glowing BunniesĪcross the clearing to the south comes a rabbit, hopping, listening, pausing to nibble at the grass with its gigantic teeth. Her attention to detail got us wondering: What research might have inspired her? And how on-point were her scientific speculations? We picked a few concepts from the book that appear to be rooted in reality or that seemed particularly prescient. Indeed, as Atwood indicated in a 2004 interview on Science Friday, her scientific research for the story was extensive, filling up two big storage boxes in her cellar. Author Margaret Atwood prefers the term “speculative fiction”-she says the things she writes about depict a plausible version of the future. ![]() Don’t call the novel Oryx and Crake a work of sci-fi. ![]()
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