'A fun-filled, joke-packed, adventure story on the end of the human race' - Margaret Atwood sums up Oryx and Crake. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe
Each month, John Mullan, professor of English at University College London, examines a different novel for the Guardian book club. Halfway through the month, he hosts a discussion with the novelist at the Guardian.
April's book is Oryx and Crake, a dystopic vision of a future in which the human race has been calamitously experimented on, by Canada's greatest living novelist, the Booker prize-winning Margaret Atwood. She came to the Guardian on Wednesday evening to talk to John Mullan in front of a small audience; their discussion covered, among other things, genetic engineering, sex, the definition of dystopia, the digestive systems of rabbits and the healing properties of cats.
Atwood was fascinating and extremely witty, and the event was highly enjoyable; happily, thanks to the joy of pod, those of you who weren't there can listen, too. The perfect way to while away the time until 5pm rolls round ...
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