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Old 02-09-2013, 03:41 PM   #225
QuantumIguana
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Originally Posted by elcreative View Post
You can't include "The Handmaiden's Tale" in a discussion involving SF, it isn't SF as Margaret Atwood went to great lengths to say...
She can say whatever she wants of course. But attempting to lift it out of the mire of science fiction, as some people see it, doesn't mean it isn't science fiction. It reminds me of an old joke: how many legs does a dog have if you call a tail a leg. Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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