A very similar phenomenon by the name " Noodie News " appears in Canadian Margaret Atwood's 2003 novel Oryx and Crake.

Atwood was at one time offended at the suggestion that The Handmaid's Tale or Oryx and Crake were science fiction, insisting to The Guardian that they were speculative fiction instead: " Science fiction has monsters and spaceships ; speculative fiction could really happen.

" She told the Book of the Month Club: " Oryx and Crake is a speculative fiction, not a science fiction proper.

Atwood has since said that she does at times write social science fiction and that Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake can be designated as such.

* Oryx and Crake ( 2003, finalist for the 2003 Booker Prize and the 2003 Governor General's Award and shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction.

* The Year of the Flood ( 2009, Oryx and Crake companion, longlisted for the 2011 IMPAC Award )

* Maddaddam ( 2013 ) ( third novel in Oryx and Crake trilogy )

* Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

* Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood's works allude to the Bonfire, as in her dystopian novels The Handmaid's Tale ( 1985 ) and Oryx and Crake ( 2003 ).

Kornbluth ; Neuromancer ( 1984 ) by William Gibson ; Oryx and Crake ( 2003 ) by Margaret Atwood ; Deadstock ( 2007 ) by Jeffrey Thomas ; and the Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker.

Genetic engineering is depicted as widespread in the civilized world of Oryx and Crake.

* In the novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Extinct species from the area include the Scimitar Oryx ( Oryx dammah ), Addax ( Addax nasomaculatus ) and Bubal Hartebeest ( Alcelaphus buselaphus ).

The Sahel was formerly home to large populations of grazing mammals, including the Scimitar-horned Oryx ( Oryx dammah ), Dama Gazelle ( Gazella dama ), Dorcas Gazelle ( Gazella dorcas ) and Red-fronted Gazelle ( Gazella rufifrons ), and Bubal Hartebeest ( Alcelaphus busephalus buselaphus ), along with large predators like the African Wild Dog ( Lycaon pictus ), Cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus ), and Lion ( Panthera leo ).

The larger species have been greatly reduced in number by over-hunting and competition with livestock, and several species are vulnerable ( Dorcas Gazelle and Red-fronted Gazelle ), endangered ( Dama Gazelle, African Wild Dog, cheetah, lion ), or extinct ( the Scimitar-horned Oryx is probably extinct in the wild, and the Bubal Hartebeest is extinct ).

Other animals on display in the area include Scimitar-horned Oryx, Dama Gazelles, Maned Wolves ( a species native to South America rather than Africa ), Emu and Tammar Wallabies ( which are native to Australia ).

The Arabian oryx ( Oryx leucoryx, Arabic: المها ), the smallest species, became extinct in the wild in 1972 from the Arabian Peninsula.

The scimitar oryx, also called scimitar-horned oryx ( Oryx dammah ), of North Africa, is now listed as possibly Extinct in the Wild.

* " Cristina Sánchez ( bullfigher )", in Outstanding Women Athletes: Who They Are and How They Influenced Sports in America by Janet Woolum ( Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1998 ), pp214 – 215

Other mammals include the Rock Hyrax ( Procavia capensis ) or " dassie ", Meerkats ( Suricata suricatta ) and other mongooses ( Herpestidae ), larger antelopes ( e. g. Bontebok Damaliscus pygargus dorcas and Gemsbok Oryx gazella ), the vulnerable Cape Mountain Zebra ( Equus zebra zebra ), and Chacma Baboons ( Papio ursinus ).

* Baumohl, Jim, ( editor ), " Homelessness in America ", Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1996.

** Atlas Oryx, a medium-sized utility helicopter manufactured by the Atlas Aircraft Corporation of South Africa

The Company was acquired by Oryx International Growth Fund in July 2006.

It was accompanied to AFB Ysterplaat on its first flight in South Africa by two Oryx and an Alouette III.

There are 3 lounges in this terminal including the Oryx Lounge, which is used by all airlines premium passengers, The Qatar Airways Gold Lounge which is used by Qatar Airways Gold Privilege Club members and the Qatar Airways Sliver lounge, used by Qatar Airways sliver privilege club card holders.

It has a long taxonomic history since its discovery in 1816, by Lorenz Oken, as Oryx algazel.

It was first described by Lorenz Oken, a German naturalist, in 1816 as Oryx algazel.

But it was considered inappropriate by Sir John Ellerman ( Second Baronet ), English shipowner, natural historian and philanthropist, and Terence Morrison-Scott, a British zoologist and was replaced by Oryx tao in 1827.

All these names were soon replaced by Oryx dammah a decade later by Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, a German physician.

Finally in January 1956, the International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature accepted Oryx dammah as the scientific name, though many papers published shortly after created confusion by using other names.

The most famous temple of Pakhet was an underground, cavernous shrine that was built by Hatshepsut near al Minya, among thirty-nine ancient tombs of Middle Kingdom monarchs of the Oryx nome, who governed from Hebenu, in an area where many quarries exist.

Hunters have also contributed heavily to the endangerment, extirpation and extinction of many animals, such as the quagga, the Great Auk, Steller's Sea Cow, the thylacine, the bluebuck, the Arabian Oryx, the Caspian and Javan tigers, the Markhor, the Sumatran rhinoceros, the bison, the North American cougar, the Altai Argali sheep, Asian Elephant and many more.

The Arabian Oryx, a species of large antelope, once inhabited much of the desert areas of the Middle East.

The primary purpose was to create means to breed endangered species, specifically: the Arabian Oryx, gazelles, ostriches, and Persian Onagers in their natural environment.

Phoenix, AZ: American Council on Education and Oryx Press, 199.

The zoo has been involved in reintroducing wild horse, Golden Lion Tamarin, roan antelope and Scimitar Oryx to the wild.

Image: Oryx helicopter. jpg | A helicopter touches down on a helideck on board the High Speed Vessel Swift

Oryx is one of four large antelope species of the genus Oryx.

Small populations of several oryx species, such as the Scimitar Oryx, exist in Texas and New Mexico ( USA ) in wild game ranches.

The East African oryx ( Oryx beisa ) inhabits eastern Africa, and the closely related gemsbok ( Oryx gazella ) inhabits southern Africa.

In Afrikaans, the name " gemsbok " came to refer to a species of Subsaharan antelope of the genus Oryx, and this meaning of " gemsbok " has been adopted into English.

With the acquisition of the Oryx Energy Company of Dallas, Texas in 1999, Kerr-McGee gained more onshore assets, as well as significant assets in several foreign areas, most notably Algeria and western Kazakhstan.

Qatar Executive is a corporate jet subsidiary of Qatar Airways, with its own livery, sporting a white fuselage with a slightly smaller Oryx painted in the airline's traditional colours of burgundy and gray.

Oryx.

Other species in the Zoo's collection that re not part of a themed exhibit include Oriental Small-clawed Otters, Red Pandas, Gemsbok, Onager, Sloth Bears, Meerkats, Ostriches, Reticulated Giraffes, Southern White Rhinoceros, Przewalski's Wild Horses, Reindeer, Common Chimpanzees, Egrets, Caribbean Flamingos, Rockhopper Penguins, Grevy's Zebra, Bongo, Roan Antelope, Common Hippopotamus, Scimitar-horned Oryx and Ring-Tailed Lemurs.

The grazers are chiefly Grevy's zebra, Burchell's Zebra, the Beisa Oryx, Grant's Gazelle, the topi and the reticulated giraffe.