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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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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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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33. To relentlessly think about the future even as it frightens you requires moral courage. That's what we see in late period Atwood.
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34. So, happy birthday @MargaretAtwood -- may we all have your courage when we turn 75!
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@HeerJeet don't forget@MargaretAtwood 's sci-fi comics! http://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2014/apr/28/novelists-do-comics-freeforall-by-margaret-atwood-and-christian-ward …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@bkmunn@MargaretAtwood A future twitter essay will be on Atwood, bpNichol, and comics.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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