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Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel rockets to number one on Amazon after Channel 4 begins airing series starring Elisabeth Moss
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THERE ARE A FEW PROBLEMS HERE, which may take a few minutes to sort through before we can get down to the gist of this slender volume.
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The TV adaptation of her dystopian classic The Handmaid’s Tale captured the political moment. Ahead of a new series, Atwood talks bestsellers, bonnets and the backlash against her views on #MeToo
bobbygw's insight:
She's a fantastic writer, but I do wish she wouldn't pontificate about science fiction. Despite her own study of SF ('In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination'), she continues to call her own SF dystopias "speculative" fiction. As if determinedly to shy away from having her own SF fiction tarnished by association, because then it would no longer be considered literary fiction by the mainstream book review critics. And this, despite the fact of the remarkable, long-standing historical body of excellent SF and authors since the 19th century.
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Atwood on whether her dystopian classic is meant as a “feminist” novel, as antireligion or as a prediction.
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