kid with genius parents. They lived in compound separated from a crumbling society where they are paid by pharmaceutical companies to create bizarre creatures, and diseases, supposedly to help mankind. Jimmy’s only friend is a boy genius named Crake. They spend hours on the internet playing violent games and watching porn. Crake seems to have no conscience and is bothered by nothing.

As they grow older, the two boys go their separate ways. Jimmy is a lonely loser, Crake a top dog in the scientific community. He invites Jimmy to be part of an experiment called the ‘Paradice Project’. While there, Jimmy falls for Oryx, a woman he once saw as a child on a porn website.

A big theme in Oryx and Crake, in my opinion, is ethics. InA team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.