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Oct. 1st, 2003 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electriclandOh God, just read Neil Gaiman's latest entry and it looks like Margaret Atwood is at it again:
Also yesterday I presented Coraline to a group of booksellers, in company with Margaret Atwood, who presented Oryx and Crake. She told the booksellers that her book wasn't speculative fiction because everything in the book was based on a scientific speculation in a brown envelope in her research box which left me scratching my head as to where she thinks science fiction (or even speculative fiction) writers get their ideas from. ("Dear God, for years we've just been making this stuff up! And now that Atwood woman turns the whole thing on its head by basing it on scientific fact! Why the Hell didn't we think of that?")Really, Eckler, Atwood... Neil's going to have no sort of opinion of Canadian writers any more.
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Date: 2003-10-01 07:33 am (UTC)Re: ...
Date: 2003-10-01 07:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-01 07:34 am (UTC)... everyone's known Atwood likes writing specfic for _yeaaaars_. She just doesn't want to get shoved into the back of Indigo to share shelf-space with Piers Antony, S/F's dirty old man, or Terry Goodkind, Mr. Vunderkind Godmaker. Hell, Atwood started the drill ages ago - Handmaiden's Tale, etc. To be honest, I'd rather deny it all and get showcased than get stuffed into the section most noted for bright primary colours and space-rays.
... Hee. Why didn't we think of that...
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Date: 2003-10-01 02:03 pm (UTC)I know she's in good company with her "Heavens no, I don't write that nasty tacky genre stuff!" attitude, but it doesn't make me like it any better.
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Date: 2003-10-01 04:09 pm (UTC)