Margaret Atwood; Jack London

Atwood's spiffy promo site for the new sequel to Oryx and Crake.

The US publisher's own promo site.

Books Atwood says Adam One and his allies might have read (note that this useful list may include paid placements).

Atwood's blog. Really.

A smart leftish blogger (probably the cultural critic Mark Fisher) considers The Year of the Flood. Fredric Jameson reviews The Year of the Flood.

Looking at genes.

A Wellsian precursor.

Ducks have feelings.

There really is an online "Naked News" (link does not show naked people).

R.I.P. Alex, the famous (and very smart) parrot.

Not feeling great about this modern phenomenon.

A nonbiological model of human life on Earth, among other animals.

An economic system. One view of for-profit health systems. Where Atwood is coming from. Before this existed.

Obviously I'm not going to show you pornography in a lecture class, though Atwood does want you to think about what porn means.

What the Internet is for.

One non-scientific source of beliefs.

Masaccio's Expulsion. Another analog for Crake, by Michelangelo.

Another Biblical analog for Snowman (engravings by Gustave Doré).

Another analog for the Crakers: "I'm counting on you."

Quite a lot of Jack London online, through Sonoma State Univ.

The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, as photographed by (possibly) London himself. More earthquake: SF City Hall after the quake and fire, again in a photo that may be by London himself.

Attractive pack animals. Violent but attractive herd animals. The results of predation.

Can you live off the dry terrain in much of California?

West Coast beaches and the end of humanity (Shell Beach, Sonoma County).

"The Scarlet Plague" in a new, better academic edition online. A useful bibliography on London as a writer of sf (and of anthropological fantasy).