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Here I am following the common convention of designating the year 2000 as the
first year of the twenty-first century, although it might be more accurately described
as the last year of the twentieth century.
2
Elaine Showalter, “The Snowman Cometh”, London Review of Books, 24 July 2003,
35.
274 Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction
Now, five major novels later, including the Booker-winning The Blind
Assassin (which contains its own pastiche dystopia) Atwood has gone
back to the future. It’s a future which has changed as much as our
present has. Once again, it’s prescient. And it’s scary.5
3
Atwood quoted in Earl G. Ingersoll, “Survival in Margaret Atwood’s Novel Oryx
and Crake”, Extrapolation, XLV/2 (Summer 2004), 162.
4
Robert Potts, “Light in the Wilderness” The Guardian, 16 April 2003, 20.
5
Lisa Appignanesi, “Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood”, The Independent, 26
April 2003: <http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article116675.ece>
(accessed 14 .06.2006).
6
Ingersoll, “Survival”, 162.