1. @MargaretAtwood turns 75 today. In her honour, a twitter-essay on Atwood's embrace of the future.
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2. A twitter essay on
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3. Atwood's embrace of twitter is in keeping with her larger embrace of the future. Science Fiction looms increasingly large in her oeuvre.
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4. When Atwood published her first book of poems (Double Persephone, 1961) did anyone imagine science fiction would color much of her work?
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5. The title of that first book of poems (Double Persephone) looks back to mythology, & many early Atwood boos historical in nature.
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6. The turning point was The Handmaid's Tale (1985), a book of dystopian foreboding & also Atwood's first popular hit.
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7. As fearful as the Handmaid's Tale is, writing it taught Atwood that the future could be imagined & inhabited, a fresh subject.
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8. Post-Handmaid's Tale, we see a science fiction or fantastika component in most Atwood fiction.
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8. Beyond the fiction, the real life Atwood is also a mad scientist, the inventor of the LongPen (letting authors sign books at a distance).
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9. And Atwood has also written a story locked away in a time capsule, to be read a century hence. She's writing for our great grand children
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10. MT @staceyNYCDC The Blind Assassin too. MA very good at exploring freedom/imagined worlds of sci-fi to pointedly comment on the present
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11. I discuss the way science fiction energized Atwood's post-1985 career in this review of her latest bookhttp://www.quillandquire.com/review/stone-mattress/ …
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12. But to build on that essay: Atwood's early career shaped by Frye (mythology, Canadian identity); her recent career by Marshall Mcluhan.
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