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...told by Snowman, formerly Jimmy, a survivor of the global calamity who now lives in a tree, attended by the Children of Crake. This is a mild-mannered tribe of bioengineered humans, more or less, if you don't count the phosphorescent skin (amazing what you can do with jellyfish genes) and the simian sexual practices...
...told by Snowman, formerly Jimmy, a survivor of the global calamity who now lives in a tree, attended by the Children of Crake. This is a mild-mannered tribe of bioengineered humans, more or less, if you don't count the phosphorescent skin (amazing what you can do with jellyfish genes) and the simian sexual practices. (Don't ask.) As Snowman rewinds his life, we learn how things have come to this strange turn. Much of it turns out to be traceable to Crake, a boyhood friend who becomes a serenely brilliant geneticist at a powerful bioengineering firm...
...wants my jellyfish? I'm not sellyfish...
...world of the Barbican Art Gallery's Game On show is like stepping into an arcade circa 1975. The faces of teenage boys, eerily lit from below, seem hypnotized by consoles decorated with intergalactic centipedes. On the screens, a bear fights with waltzing trees and chorus lines of space jellyfish advance, firing from the hip. Videogames have reached their fourth decade, and the Game On exhibition traces their development from the simple tennis contest Pong to cinematic role-playing games like Final Fantasy. But the show is not just a timeline of game genres and chip development (plus a chance...
...boys are isolated; their only contact with the outside world is when operators pick up the catch and drop off water, rice and instant noodles. Flattened cardboard boxes serve as mattresses. Mangy dogs defecate on the platform surface where fish are sorted from the sea snakes and jellyfish. In the past five years, six boys have died at sea, the victims of accidents and failed escapes. Andy was rescued last July, one of scores of boys who have been removed from the jermals since the International Labor Organization began an anti-child-labor program in Indonesia a year ago. Despite...