Internet Nation
What would it be like; what would our twenty-something university lives be like without the Internet, cyberspace, www’s and dot.com’s? This query has haunted me lately as I become increasingly aware of my own participation in this phenomenon, aware of my existence as a slave to the techno-culture. As little as seven years ago the [...]
Dystopia is Only Pages Away
Margaret Atwood – Canada’s own authorial golden child – has recently taken her penchant for darkly humorous dystopian fiction and channeled it into her latest offering to the literary community: Oryx and Crake. My initial attraction to this text came from the caption on the cover which read: “Towering and intrepid… Atwood does Orwell… one [...]
