18. For McLuhan, Canada was naturally futurist because we needed communication networks to hold together. Canada as DEW-line
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@alienated that should actually be a critique of Canadian futurism first peoples & animals occupy that ostensibly “blank” background1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes -
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21. Atwood's embrace of the future, both as writer, twitter-fiend, & inventor stands in contrast to her peers.
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22. Atwood was born in 1939, the same decade that saw the birth of John Updike, Philip Roth, and Alice Munro.
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23. In contrast to Atwood, her peers (Updike, Roth, Munro) all turned their eyes to past, not to future, as they got older.
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24. Updike did write two science fiction novels (Poorhouse Fair & Towards the End of Time) but both imagined only nominally different future
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25. True science fiction has novum, the rupture in time that makes another reality different from our own. Updike's s.f. doesn't have.
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26. Roth did traffic in fantastika in many books, but always in a fundamentally conservative way.
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27. Roth's "Plot Against America" gives us alternative history, but in end order is restored and we return to something like our reality
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28. Roth's Fantastika always has element of "it was all a dream" or "just kidding" (see Operation Shylock).
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29. More broadly, in late fiction, Updike, Roth and Munro all increasingly turned to history, both personal & that of family.
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30. Late period Munro is an increasingly historical writer, just as late period Atwood an increasingly science fiction one.
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