Her interests are broad: "Pop science - usually life sciences - is my casual reading," she laughs "I don't have to review it or have an opinion, I can just read it for fun." Military history is another: in recent weeks, she wrote a not untopical newspaper article on "Napoleon's big mistakes", of which she remarks, "I think there probably are lessons you can 'win' but it's very difficult to hold a country of people who hate you".Īgainst punctiliously rendered backgrounds, human dramas are played out. Nor are her researches limited to the cutting edge of contemporary genetics: her 1979 novel, Life Before Man, set partly in the dinosaur department of a natural history museum, received a positive review in a paleontological magazine ("I was flattered. it's a brown cardboard box - in which all the research clippings are filed: so there's nothing I can't back up," says Atwood. "We have a big box, called The Brown Box.
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