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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
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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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