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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Margaret Atwood wants you to know that she doesn’t write science fiction.

No, she won’t give back her Arthur C. Clarke Award, for her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale. But she does want to clarify matter. She will admit to writing speculative fiction, but not crass sci-fi. What’s the difference? "Science fiction has monsters and spaceships,” Atwood explain…

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