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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@MarkKohut Very true. I wrote about that in my Quill & Quire review of book.
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