Margaret Atwood claimed The Handmaid's Tale wasn't science fiction because it didn't have aliens or spaceships
Speculative Fiction: Sci-Fi For Big Famous Authors Who Won't Own Up.
For some reason, it's even more annoying when people include written sci-fi in snarky rants about how simplistic/stupid/unimaginative/worthless the genre is as a whole. For heaven's sake, people, what have you been reading?
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Margaret Atwood claimed The Handmaid's Tale wasn't science fiction because it didn't have aliens or spaceships
Speculative Fiction: Sci-Fi For Big Famous Authors Who Won't Own Up.
For some reason, it's even more annoying when people include written sci-fi in snarky rants about how simplistic/stupid/unimaginative/worthless the genre is as a whole. For heaven's sake, people, what have you been reading?