"Ornyx & Crake"

In Ornyx and Crake, by Margrett Atwood, the human race/ population has been obliterated by a deadly plague. All that is let are the Crakers, who are genetically manipulated beings and can survive in the environment. Ornyx is a mysterious woman appearing in Snowman’s (Jimmy’s) dreams and hallucinations. It’s a genre novel that deals with overpopulation, disease, all through the lenses of a science fiction story.

I feel that sometimes genre storytelling is a type of storytelling that can lend itself to more interesting kinds of stories. I also feel that genre stories don’t exactly have to be purely genre, as it can vibe implemented to casual stories, which can make those stories pop and gain more notoriety to different readers. What is great about genre stories is that it can be placed into different kinds of stories and not be tie into it’s own kind of storytelling. You can place different aspects of a genre into different stories. It can make stories seem very interesting and can make them appeal to a broader audience that wouldn’t usually be accustomed to usual kinds of stories.

To me, genre storytelling is still literary. You still have the form of writing stories, the three acts, but it’s the contents that fill each act of the story with makes it very interesting. You can have a normal story, but when you add aspects of different genres, thats when stories like these can take notice.  Here you have a story of a population decreasing in amount, and when you add the alien aspects to it as a reason for it, thats when I feel a story can breathe in new life.

When reading the story, I don’t think that my experience was ruined or changed after going through and answering these questions. I really just saw it as a genre story with interesting element like genetics and businesses. Even though I saw it as a genre story, I didn’t see it as an unamused story, I really think it’s a well executed story that uses aspects of science, genetics, and sourcing, to get its story across.