CREATOR1 WORK ON THE SHELF
Margaret Atwood
BIO
Bio
Canadian novelist, poet, and critic best known for The Handmaid's Tale and the MaddAddam trilogy. She often describes her futuristic books as speculative fiction: stories about things that could really happen.
WORKS
On the shelf.
ON THE SHOW
On the show.
- Ep 1 — Why Does SciFi Matter? (09:45–11:26): Caitlin explains Atwood's rule for The Handmaid's Tale: nothing goes in unless it has actually happened somewhere in history. That's why it works as a mirror without feeling like an attack.
- Ep 3 — Science Fiction isn’t about the future (16:16–17:11): Caitlin calls Atwood's historical-precedent rule for The Handmaid's Tale an extreme example of sci-fi built from the present: "here's where we're at in time, here's where this could lead us really easily."