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[return to "The Making of Margaret Atwood"]
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1. klunge+314[view] [source] 2019-11-22 11:27:51
>>apolli+(OP)
She looks down her nose at "science fiction" and claims that her work is "speculative fiction" instead. It is a pretentious, pedantic distinction and, as a lifelong scifi fan, it makes me deeply ambivalent to anything she produces. Even if it is good science fiction.
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2. techst+X94[view] [source] 2019-11-22 13:08:08
>>klunge+314
To be fair to Atwood, there was a lot of junk sci fi over the years that she would want to distance her work from.
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3. psycho+um4[view] [source] 2019-11-22 14:47:54
>>techst+X94
Hell, even some of the most popular sci-fi today (cough—Three Body Problem—cough) would fit that bill. If I was an author in complete command of my craft like Atwood is, I wouldn't want to be explicitly associated with the genre, either.
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4. blaser+595[view] [source] 2019-11-22 19:18:41
>>psycho+um4
I'll bite: what's wrong with Three Body Problem?
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