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In an increasingly dystopian world, what can the power of imagination do to help?
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, poetry and essays, and winner of the Booker Prize and the Arthur C Clarke prize for literature. She’s one of the world’s most imaginative and popular novelists, and has created extraordinary speculative futures with The Handmaid’s Tale and with her MaddAddam trilogy: Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam.
Her imagination is fired by science as much as it is by politics and social issues. She takes ideas that are now current in science, and speculates as to what they will mean for our society and environment in the near future.
In this talk Margaret discusses the scientific background – including genetic engineering, climate change and drug development - to her wildly inventive future worlds, in particular the MaddAddam trilogy.
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