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Originally Posted by Trebro
Just finished Oryx and Crake by Atwood. Her writing is as sharp as ever, with that wandering narrative style that I've come to associate with her. The book is definitely science fiction, as she takes pains to make the future world seem real to the reader, though the science is of course, soft.
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Apparently Atwood doesn't like the idea of people thinking it's science fiction.
http://www.ansible.co.uk/sfx/sfx107.html
"Atwood prefers to say that she writes speculative fiction – a term coined by SF man Robert A. Heinlein. As she told the Guardian, "Science fiction has monsters and spaceships; speculative fiction could really happen."" 