"Peter Watts - Atwood" - читать интересную книгу автора (Watts Peter)

fiction must deal with science. She knows, in other words, that she
has to write science fiction.

But she just can't bring herself to admit it, and her resulting
backflips and contortions remind me of an old trope that would be
science-fictional even by Atwood's limited understanding of the
term. I'm thinking of the stereotypic malign computer from sixties
Star Trek, haplessly trying to parse James Kirk's ingenious claim
that "Everything I say is a lie". Unable to resolve the contradiction,
it sparks. It fizzes. It cries "Does not compute", its once-stentorian
voice gone all high and squeaky. Finally, in a puff of pink smoke,
it expires.

Margaret Atwood deserves our pity. Cognitive dissonance can't
be an easy way to go.