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Northwind said:
Dystopian rather than science fiction.....if there is a difference
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I consider Science Fiction to be a Genre and Dystopian to be more a Theme?

Like I definitely consider her Oryx & Crake
and Handmaiden's Tale Science Fiction

Very very successful, popular Science Fiction

I consider her to be in the same crowd of Science Fiction as Ursula K LeGuin and Doris Lessing

And she is proof to me that Science Fiction is more relevant than Literature

She is a Master at the craft. Another who makes it all look so easy

For a long while Science Fiction has been in the ghetto? Lower class than the High Art of Literature? I get it. History. Social class.

She makes writing look easy
And I enjoy her impish humour as a person
 
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Good morning! Disposal of cremains, injuries incurred while dog walking, roast beef dinners, stitching, sci fi, dystopia, the the lovely concoction known as CoLyte, and all the other thoughts and topics, we bring them and gather in spirit round the Coffee Cart. All is ready, come on in!

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If deficient of sentient ... can one sense much or just spots? Thus a sensitive skin ... unless one is a hard shell!

Capricious anima ells ...
 
Northwind said:
Dystopian rather than science fiction.....if there is a difference
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Dystopian is a subgenre of s-f most of the time. Projecting what could be wrong about future society rather than right. Some of them don't really play like s-f due to being very near future (I'm thinking things like Handmaid's tale and The Hunger Games here) but they are part of the tradition of social speculation, rather than or as well as scientific and technological, in the genre. It really goes way back. While H.G. Wells is best-known for originating tropes like alien invasions and time travel, there's a fair bit of social commentary in his stories as well (he was a socialist who was quite critical of imperialism).
Delightful Life said:
Like I definitely consider her Oryx & Crake
and Handmaiden's Tale Science Fiction
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Yeah, Margaret writes s-f. I think she's even owned up to it with projects like the graphic novel series she wrote (Angel Catbird). Handmaid's Tale is kind five minutes into the future so doesn't play like s-f but the Madd Adam trilogy (Oryx & Crake and it successors) with the speculation about the consequences of bioengineering definitely feels like s-f.
 
Dystopian counters utopian that is useful for the entire domain ... thus holes in the a' priori!

Sometimes observed as dimples in the heavens ... pits or Pips? Isolated as ceded? Then there is the question of secession vs succession (one being vapour rising while the other involves drips). Maybe a type of mean economy ... hard to penetrate and thus baseline failures ... bottom lion?

May have been the talking ass ... stele of the behind? Sheer chaos ... to see your ass going ...
 
Mendalla said:
Handmaid's Tale is kind five minutes into the future so doesn't play like s-f but the Madd Adam trilogy (Oryx & Crake and it successors) with the speculation about the consequences of bioengineering definitely feels like s-f.
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Handmaid's Tale was written in the 80's. Everything she put in it had happened. It's scary to see her writing come to pass in parts of the US.

I read Oryx and Crake several years ago. I enjoyed it but had to recover from it. I wanted to read the trilogy. When I started that, it really elevated my stress levels. I thought I'd try again after I retired and was relaxed. Nope. I don't plan to read it again now. I suspect having lived through a pandemic will make the books harder to read too.

The book I'm reading now takes place after much of the northeast US has had an economic and social collapse. The rich are richer and everyone else is struggling. There are boarded up houses, closed businesses and all manner of social problems. This couple goes to a created community where they spend alternating months in prison then "outside". It reminds me of Stepford on some level. It will be interesting to see how it evolves
 
I was recently thinking of "Oryx and Crake" (which I read when it came out), because synthetic chicken is quickly coming to market. Atwood makes the process grotesque.
 
ninj said:
I was recently thinking of "Oryx and Crake" (which I read when it came out), because synthetic chicken is quickly coming to market. Atwood makes the process grotesque.
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A chicken is just a featheres bug... :LOL:
A synthetic chicken is a soulless feathered bug :LOL:
 
The butt exam was fun!
Got 3 polyps. One was 1 " long

Twice I could feel them inside me; "that was me going around a corner"

When they put the O2 mask on me: "Luke, I am your Father"

And now I know what Fentanyl (not the dangerous kind) feels like

A good hospital with a small town feel. Where people can laugh and smile.

I heartily enjoyed my coffee, cranberry jooce and ginger ale

And I am glad to see the improvement in clothing; a robe to cover up the backdraft :LOL:

I am down to 83kg now

Gotta watch out for storm drains now; might fall between the slats
 
I enjoy the taste and texture of Colyte type beverages. I am too old now for any more colonoscopies in Ontario. Just FIT tests now. My weight is between 80.7 and 82 kg most of the time. Goal is 79.5 kg, my weight at age 35.
 
Redbaron said:
Good morning! Disposal of cremains, injuries incurred while dog walking, roast beef dinners, stitching, sci fi, dystopia, the the lovely concoction known as CoLyte, and all the other thoughts and topics, we bring them and gather in spirit round the Coffee Cart. All is ready, come on in!

C(_)/ c(_) c\_/ c[_]
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You are such a dear

Nothing but the best from you

With a sprinkling of theology as well
 
They say that The O was an old expression of God in theory! Like my grandfather's impression ... God's circling!

The number of times we need to return for evidence is numerous ... thus the go round!
 
Second camping trip with our new trailer. We emptied it of most stuff after our first trip and I did not repack stakes and ropes, long leash for the dog, or the dog's blanket.



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Had an interesting coffee break with neighbours today sharing stories arising from our recent storm. B cheerfully explained how he gained a huge tree stump from the park across the road to set his anvil on. R shared that the museum had claimed a bunch of spruce trees to cut up with their steam driven mill to entertain and educate visitors. Apparently they plan to sell the planks they can't use to raise money for future projects. A business that lost some trees had a sawmill offer to remove ALL their row of trees free and replace them. The original trees will be used for a log home.
All over town there are groups of friends and families picking up the debris that the machinery users leave behind. They are cheerfully filling their trucks and trailers, taking loads to the dump area and treating the kids to a burger or ice cream once they get tired. Nothing seems to pull together quite like small town life!
 
When Berlin Germany had a bad storm taking down lots of trees in the inner city and around, firewood was so plenty and affordable, that people got themselves fire places.
 
Good Morning! The stuff that can be done with fallen trees, the wonders of Colyte, and the procedures that follow its ingestion, for dystopia and sci fi, and all the rest of what makes up life, we bring it to the Coffee Cart. The conversation is lively, friendships warm, beverages hot. All is ready, come on in!

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