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Margaret Atwood Renders Today's Troubles into Absorbing Dystopian Tomorrowsnew

Atwood discusses her new novel, The Year of the Flood, today's environmental movement, and why no one can predict the future.
Santa Fe Reporter  |  Julia Goldberg  |  11-11-2009  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Year of the Flood, environment, science fiction, Margaret Atwood

Literary Icon Margaret Atwood Discusses Imminent and Avoidable Apocalypsenew

For Atwood, the world of Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood isn't a wild flight of fancy, it's a future extrapolated directly from our present. While her books are not science fiction in the familiar sense they are undeniably fictions informed by science.
Fast Forward Weekly  |  Brendan Harrison  |  09-24-2009  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: BirdLife International, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, science, Margaret Atwood

Moral Victorynew

There isn't another writer on the planet who can be so tough and so tender at the same time.
NOW Magazine  |  Susan G. Cole  |  10-06-2006  |  Fiction
Tags: Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder

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