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Pigs With Six Kidneys.(Margaret Atwood calls her latest book, "Oryx and Crake" speculative fiction)(Biography)

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From: Newsweek International
Date: 20030714
Author:Pepper, Tara

Though some of history's edgiest writers--including George Orwell and Aldous Huxley--created scary, dystopic novels, none has had the temerity to pull off two conflicting visions of the future. Except for Margaret Atwood. In her 1985 best- seller "The Handmaid's Tale," the Canadian novelist depicted a world in the aftermath of nuclear catastrophe, where the few fertile women left were enslaved as breeding machines for a state ruled by religious fundamentalists. Now, with her 11th novel, "Oryx and Crake" (384 pages. Bloomsbury), Atwood has concocted a second futuristic fable, ...

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