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Aliens have replaced Angels - Margaret Atwood
from a few years back. Margaret Atwood on why we need science fiction
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06-03-2012, 04:00 PM | #2 |
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I don't read a lot of her fiction, but I love her non-fiction stuff. Wise and funny; can't be beat!
I liked "The Penelopiad", so I guess I should try something else more recent than "Bluebeard's Egg". |
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The ones mentioned are excellent - Handmaid's Tale and Onyx and Crake there is also the sequel The Year of the Flood.
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Have you read her latest nonfiction piece in the New Yorker's Science Fiction issue? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...fa_fact_atwood
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No, because it's behind a pay-wall.
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