Once again told in flashback and also continuing the story from the end of The Year of the Flood, we discover the back story to Zeb, one of the minor characters from the first two books, and follow the lives of the flood survivors and the Crakers, genetically designed to outlive the humans.
One of the most interesting dimensions is that Crake never intended his race of genetically perfect humans to have religion, but the telling and retelling of the stories of how they came to be begin to become their folklore or tradition, and the tellers achieve prophet status.
What is disturbing about these books is that none of the technology mentioned is so outlandish that you couldn't believe it to be true.
Although I thought the first book in the trilogy is the strongest, I feel that this set of stories will one day be seen as a science fiction masterpiece.
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