![]() ![]() ![]() But it’s important to be reminded that it’s not a new phenomenon. Female geekdom is on the rise in recent years, which is partly why you’re seeing such ugly backlashes against it. Having a white-haired lady in the mix is a great thing for us all. cat pleased I have long legs at last!,” Atwood jokingly tweeted about her promotional image for the book. But sci-fi and fantasy, as genres, leave their fingerprints all over Atwood’s work, from the sci-fi novel-within-a-novel of The Blind Assassin to her recently completed Oryx and Crake trilogy of speculative fiction. Her most famous book is, of course, a sci-fi novel, the dystopian classic The Handmaid’s Tale. Atwood is up there with Stanley Kubrick as a figure who’s helped elevate the literary and artistic status of science fiction, showing mainstream audiences that truly great art can come out of this genre. ![]()
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