Atwood holds that, with the rise of Ancient Greece, and especially the installation of the court system detailed in Aeschylus's Oresteia, this deity has been replaced by a more thorough conception of debt.

Atwood was at one time offended at the suggestion that The Handmaid's Tale or Oryx and Crake were science fiction, insisting to The Guardian that they were speculative fiction instead: " Science fiction has monsters and spaceships ; speculative fiction could really happen.

Atwood has since said that she does at times write social science fiction and that Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake can be designated as such.

More recently, Atwood has continued her exploration of the implications of Canadian literary themes for Canadian identity in lectures such as Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature ( 1995 ).

Margaret Atwood has repeatedly made observations about our relationships to animals in her works.

Atwood has strong views on environmental issues, and she and her partner are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Club within BirdLife International.

Atwood has won more than 55 awards in Canada and internationally, including:

Atwood has a rich cultural history.

The district has two schools in Atwood:

Over the years, the Review has featured reviews and articles by such writers and thinkers as Timothy Garton Ash, Margaret Atwood, Russell Baker, Saul Bellow, Isaiah Berlin, Harold Bloom, Joseph Brodsky, Noam Chomsky, J. M. Coetzee, Frederick Crews, Ronald Dworkin, John Kenneth Galbraith, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Jay Gould, Murray Kempton, Richard Lewontin, Alison Lurie, Peter Medawar, Daniel Mendelsohn, Vladimir Nabokov, V. S. Naipaul, Peter G. Peterson, Nathaniel Rich, John Searle, Zadie Smith, I. F. Stone, Desmond Tutu, John Updike, Derek Walcott, Steven Weinberg, Garry Wills and Tony Judt.

Atwood claims that of all the characters she has written, she identifies most " with Zenia.

The contract has now changed: even though Atwood had hired Joubert to terminate Turner before, Atwood's superiors have now hired Joubert to terminate Atwood.

In the novel The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, the United States has been replaced by a theocratic totalitarian nation, the " Republic of Gilead.

An elevator with a counterbalance approximates an ideal Atwood machine and thereby relieves the driving motor from the load of holding the elevator cab — it has to overcome only weight difference and inertia of the two masses.

A recent reissue of Paul Britten Austin's translation of Doktor Glas into English, as Doctor Glas, and with a perceptive introduction by Margaret Atwood, has meant a rise in his popularity in the Anglo-Saxon literary world.

She takes an immediate dislike to newcomer Ryan Atwood, barely acknowledging the fact that he has saved her daughter's life.

Atwood has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design nine times and won Academy Awards for the movies Chicago in 2002, Memoirs of a Geisha in 2006, and Alice in Wonderland in 2011.

Atwood has collaborated several times with directors Tim Burton, Rob Marshall and Jonathan Demme.

Atwood has been partially involved in developing or has been the lead designer for producing the costumes on over 50 films to date.

The Writer's Voice has also welcomed such authors as Joyce Carol Oates ( 2000 ), Margaret Atwood ( 2003 ), Amy Tan ( 2007 ), and Azar Nafisi ( 2008 ).

However, in Alias Grace Atwood says that she has changed her opinion on the question of Marks ' culpability.

However, Atwood has rarely, if ever, commented on the similarities directly.

Still, Atwood denies that The Edible Woman, for example, published in 1969 and coinciding with the early second wave of the feminist movement, is feminist and claims that she wrote it four years before the movement.

* A Suggestive Inquiry into Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy written by Mary Anne Atwood, and originally published anonymously in 1850.

Two years earlier he had published the first study of Margaret Atwood's feminism: Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics.

The Robber Bride is a Margaret Atwood novel first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1993.

Expeditions is a collection of poetry by Margaret Atwood, published in 1966.

* Chess games recorded by Atwood were published posthumously by George Walker in London in 1835, under the name Selection of Games at Chess, actually played by Philidor and his Contemporaries.

In 2002, the latest edition was published by Anchor Books with an introduction by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.

Fictional tributes to MacEwen have been published by Margaret Atwood ( the short story " Isis in Darkness "), and Lorne S. Jones ( the novel Mighty Oaks ).

* In 2002, the latest edition was published by Anchor Books with an introduction by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.

Her second book, The Country Between Us ( 1981 ), was published with the help of Margaret Atwood.

In 1996, author Margaret Atwood published a novel about Marks, Alias Grace.

Atwood, S. Dalstron and Fernandez published its description in Selbyana magazine on June 12th, 2002.

Wilderness Tips is a collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood, published in 1991 by McClelland and Stewart.

Surfacing is the second published novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.

The founding physicians of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine included pathologist William Henry Welch ( 1850-1934 ), the first dean of the school and a mentor to generations of research scientists ; internist Sir William Osler ( 1849-1919 ), sometimes referred to as the “ father of modern medicine ,” having been perhaps the most influential physician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as author of The Principles and Practice of Medicine ( 1892 ), written in the Hopkins Hospital and published for more than a century ; surgeon William Stewart Halsted ( 1852-1922 ), who revolutionized surgery by insisting on subtle skill and technique, as well as strict adherence to sanitary procedures ; and gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly ( 1858-1943 ), a superb gynecological surgeon often credited with establishing gynecology as a specialty and being among the first to use radium to treat cancer.

* True Stories ( collection ), a collection of poetry by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1981

In 2003, Shaftesbury Films produced an anthology series, The Atwood Stories, which dramatized six of Atwood's short stories.

A more recent short story, " Scarlet Ibis " by Margaret Atwood, is included in Bluebeard's Egg ( 1983 ).

" Unearthing Suite " is a short story by Margaret Atwood.

Founded by Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Graeme Gibson, Margaret Laurence and David Young, and registered as a charitable organization on March 3, 1976, the Writers ' Trust celebrates and rewards the talents and achievements of Canada's novelists, short story writers, poets, biographers, and other fiction and nonfiction writers.

" Freeforall " is a 1986 short story by Margaret Atwood.

In 1910, the Fullerton and Richfield Railway built a short cutoff of the San Bernardino-Los Angeles route from Atwood west to Fullerton, giving the Surf Line its northern terminus of Fullerton.

* The short story " Lusus Naturae " by Margaret Atwood centers on a young woman whose parents fake her death to hide the fact that she is a werecat.