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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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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13. Frye and McLuhan were the twin academic gods of the University of Toronto when Atwood studied there.
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14. From Frye, she acquired her interest in mythology & Canadian identity; from McLuhan her interest in media & technology.
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15. Aside from McLuhan, Atwood belongs to Canadian tradition of futurist writing:
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16. Those are just some of the names in the Canadian futurist tradition -- many others could be added.
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17. Canadian futurism is partially defined by fact it works against an almost blank background, an environment as desolate as the moon.
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18. For McLuhan, Canada was naturally futurist because we needed communication networks to hold together. Canada as DEW-line
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