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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2014
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      20. Last MT by @alienated makes great point about the blind spot in this tradition.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2014
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      21. Atwood's embrace of the future, both as writer, twitter-fiend, & inventor stands in contrast to her peers.

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2014
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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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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2014
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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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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2014
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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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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2014
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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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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2014
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      26. Roth did traffic in fantastika in many books, but always in a fundamentally conservative way.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2014
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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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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2014
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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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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2014
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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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2014

      30. Late period Munro is an increasingly historical writer, just as late period Atwood an increasingly science fiction one.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2014
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          Jeet Heer Retweeted Berlin Verlag

          31. Let's put it this way, you don't see Philip Roth or Alice Munro going to Comic Con:https://twitter.com/berlinverlag/status/445286193983275008 …

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          @MargaretAtwood @buchmesse @Comic_Con pic.twitter.com/p0ijIJSOjd
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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2014
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          32. Atwood's embrace of the future is all the more impressive because future scares her (rightly so, for environmental reasons).

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