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Posted 2013-02-28 4:38 PM (#4786 - in reply to #4427)
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Atwood has a very slippery relationship with SF. I am nearly finished with her non-fiction book "In Other Worlds" which shows her love (and deep knowledge) of genre fiction. It also shows her admiration for Ursula Le Guin an author I like to compare to Atwood and who I think would have gained much wider acceptance if she had followed Atwood's marketing strategy.
Part of her problem is that she doesn't want to be labelled an SF writer and thus decrease her sales then neither did Kurt Vonnegut. Both successfully stayed labelled as mainstream writers and reaped the financial benefits that that entailed.
I'm not a fan of Orynx and Crake, I think it was sloppily written, but The Handmaid's Tale is a masterpiece of SF and Women's fiction and I think it will stay a classic for years to come.
I think things have changed and there is more recognition of quality SF in the Lit mainstream. Writers like Chabon and Lethem are leading the way. But they are a new generation or perhaps a return to the older generation of Orwell and Huxley.

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