[ SECRET POST #6056 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6056 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Here's my best bet. This isn't researched, but I'm a long-time fan of MA who also finds her stance of SF to be curiously under-examined:
More than once Magaret Atwood distanced herself from scifi as a genre, specifically because she doesn't think it's a genre that can comment on the thing she's interested in. She's right about the Handmaids Tale, it's not really SF but because dystopian fiction is "unreal" it was often shelved with SF. The Handmaid's Tale was published in 1985, so she's spent literally decades being asked about this.
Cut to the early 2000s where she publishes Oryx & Crake, her first book since winning the Booker prise (after many noms), which has a (mildly?) post-apocalyptic setting with flashbacks to modern times. Is it SF? Maybe! We can split genre-hairs - it's set five minutes in the future, the technology in the book largely existed at the time. Magaret Atwood describes it as "speculative fiction", and you can argue endlessly about the difference between the two. Advanced-level debaters may wish to throw in "slipstream" as another is/is-not SF.
The book is widely and well-reviewed in the general press. however! many sf-adjacent bloggers take umbrage at 1. the praise being bestowed on her from literary reviewers for what was for SF reasonably common ideas 2. the fact that if a SF/genre writer had written the same book it would not be having the same coverage 3. Magaret Atwood's open contempt for the sf genre. Blogs are written, complaints are laid - some valid, some less so.
This is repeated for the following two books in the trilogy, coming out in 2009 and 2013. She is seen as a kind of fuddy-duddy figure online, someone who thinks SF means spaceships and is for children and unserious readers. She's also The Establishment, so if you want to spit out some zingers about pop-feminism or so-called "highbrow" literature or, idk, Canadians, she's an easy dunk.

She also, god bless her, simply will not shut up, and doesn't seem super interested in being likeable. So she probably popped off about /something/ that frothed up the fandom corners of the internet, thus inspiring your blog posts.