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National Review. Atlanta Black Star. NBC Sports Chicago. WGN - Chicago. NBC Sports Boston. Women's Health. And the link with feminist science fiction? It is about a man from Earth who travels to the planet Gethen, where the people have no fixed gender. He is by turns fascinated, appalled and deeply, sickeningly lonely. The association between some writers of feminist science fiction and the wilderness is surprisingly strong, in fact.
Atwood grew up spending a large portion of each year in the Quebec woods. Her father was an entomologist — an insect man with a specialism in the solitary bee — who worked on ways to protect the Canadian forest industry from insect damage. Alice Sheldon — who wrote under the pen name James Tiptree Jr, and after whom the James Tiptree Jr award for science fiction or fantasy explorations of gender is named — travelled extensively as a child among African peoples including the Kikuyu.
Her parents were Herbert, an explorer, and Mary, a travel writer and war correspondent. Of course, not every author of feminist science fiction was taught how to make a fire in the wilderness by her or his parents. But what interests me, and what links these stories, I think, is the sense of young people having been exposed early on to the idea that there are other ways of living which are equally valid, equally worthy of respect, equally troubling and equally beautiful.
That other cultures and modes of existence make sense on their own terms. The answers are often dystopian. In fact, everything — like the stratagem of the handmaids — has happened somewhere before. Everything in it has been praised by someone as the right, the good, the best, the only way to live.
They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time … Newspapers were censored and some were closed down, for security reasons they said. The road-blocks began to appear, and Identipasses.
It happens step by step. How do you boil a frog? You turn the heat up slowly. The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time. The most sexist of all the realities she explores is also the one that is most economically depressed. Economic downturns make vulnerable people more vulnerable — and societies in trouble tend to retreat to an imagined past of certainty and stability.
To put it another way: justice feels affordable in times of plenty, and starts to feel like a luxury in times of want. But anarchy can lead to new opportunities. Feminist science fiction does have a way of finding resonances in the modern world. In one future, the human race has somehow managed to come to its senses about all kinds of prejudice, learning how to value the rich diversity of life — gay and straight, male and female, all ethnicities and physical characteristics.
Is another to breed ourselves for some uses or imagined uses! For all we know, a new ice age comes and we might better breed for furriness than mathematical ability! Yes, corporations continue to grow in power as if they were living things, merging and combining abilities. Utopias and dystopias can exist side by side, even in the same moment.
My latest novel, The Power , has been described as a dystopian thriller. In it, almost all the women in the world suddenly develop the power to electrocute people at will they can electrocute women as well as men; also animals and inanimate objects — I based it on what electric eels do. And they use their power, slowly but surely, just as men do in our world today.
Some of them are kind and some cruel. Some rape and some just have a jolly good time in bed with willing participants. Nothing happens to men in the novel — I explain carefully to interviewers — that is not happening to a woman in our world today. So is it dystopian?
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