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   From: d.phillipsonSPAMBLOCK@ncf.ca   
      
   "Derek Broughton"  wrote in message   
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   > (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.  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.   
      
   --   
   Don Phillipson   
   Carlsbad Springs   
   (Ottawa, Canada)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)