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   From: damm.usenet@kristiandamm.dk   
      
   Don Phillipson wrote:   
   > "Derek Broughton"  wrote in message   
   > news:1801773.tN0X3bn7Qq@cedar.serverforest.com...   
   >   
   >> (Margaret Atwood always argues that /The Handmaid's Tale/ isn't   
   >> Science Fiction, too);   
   >   
   > Well, future science is in no way a theme in her book and   
   > I don't remember any science  at all.  The Handmaid's Tale   
   > is a political fable much like Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen   
   > Here.   If a genre, this must rank a notch higher than science   
   > fiction.   
      
   "Higher"? I wasn't aware that genres could be ranked that way.   
      
   > It postulates no future science or technolgy as the   
   > reason for events (the reason why people act badly) -- only   
   > the same material, social and psychological motives that   
   > operate today.   
      
   You have just described much of Ursula K. LeGuins writings, which are   
   generally accepted as being science fiction.   
      
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