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I'm Starved for You (Positron #1)

by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

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The gated community of Consilience isn’t your average American town, but in a near future imagined by bestselling author Margaret Atwood (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Year of the Flood”) it may be as close as anyone can hope to get.

Husband and wife Stan and Charmaine are among thousands who have signed up for a new social order because the old one is all but broken. Outside...more The gated community of Consilience isn’t your average American town, but in a near future imagined by bestselling author Margaret Atwood (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Year of the Flood”) it may be as close as anyone can hope to get.

Husband and wife Stan and Charmaine are among thousands who have signed up for a new social order because the old one is all but broken. Outside the walls of Consilience, half the country is out of work, gangs of the drug-addicted and disaffected menace the streets, warlords disrupt the food supply, and overcrowded correctional facilities churn out offenders to make room for more.

The Consilience prison, Positron, is something else altogether. The very heart of the community and its economic engine, it’s a bold experiment in voluntary incarceration. In exchange for a house, food, and what the online brochure hails as “A Meaningful Life,” residents agree to spend one month as inmates, the next as civilians, working as guards or whatever’s required.

Stan and Charmaine have no complaints—until the day Stan discovers an erotic note under the fridge of the house he and Charmaine must share with another couple while they’re back inside Positron. It’s a missive of erotic longing, pressed with a vivid lipstick kiss: “I’m starved for you!” it breathes. If Stan rarely thought about the house’s other residents before—they’ve never met them and don’t know their names; it’s not allowed—now he can’t stop thinking about them, especially the note’s sex-addled author, a woman apparently named Jasmine, so unlike his girlish wife, Charmaine. He HAS to meet her, but in this highly ordered and increasingly surveilled world, disorderly thoughts are a risk, and breaking the rules has dire consequences.

Margaret Atwood, one of the most prophetic authors of our time, delivers a tale of sexual obsession that is equal parts “Tom Jones” and “Brave New World.” A hilarious yet harrowing story that lays bare the very real dangers of trading liberty for safety, “I’m Starved for You” evokes the irrepressibility of human appetite and asks just how far a man and a woman are willing to go to get what they’re truly hungry for.

Margaret Atwood is the author of the internationally bestselling novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” as well as forty other books of fiction and nonfiction, including “The Blind Assassin,” “Oryx and Crake,” “The Year of the Flood,” and “Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth,” which was made into a documentary film that recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Atwood was awarded the Booker Prize in 2000 for “The Blind Assassin.”(less)

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Mar 13, 2012 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: lit-canada, kindle, short-stories, sci-fi-dystopia, feminist-fiction

Another reason to love Kindle singles.

Atwood's stories centers around a couple in a dystopian future where prisoners and non-prisioners exchange roles at the end of every month. It's not just our house; it's a house you share with an alternate.

Atwood's short work is good read that will make you think.

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Apr 30, 2012 Proustitute rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, canadian-literature, contemporary-fiction, science-and-speculative-fiction

When Nobel nomination season hits, I always raise Atwood’s name; to me, she is one of the most talented female writers working today. With that said, I think that most of her more poetic, political, and engaging novels are rooted firmly in the past: her recent work is a smorgasbord with some hits—like the wonderfully unique The Penelopiad which still showcased her trademark humor and incisive wit—and some misses like the dystopian Oryx and Crake.

I would hate to divide Atwood’s output into “liter...more When Nobel nomination season hits, I always raise Atwood’s name; to me, she is one of the most talented female writers working today. With that said, I think that most of her more poetic, political, and engaging novels are rooted firmly in the past: her recent work is a smorgasbord with some hits—like the wonderfully unique The Penelopiad which still showcased her trademark humor and incisive wit—and some misses like the dystopian Oryx and Crake.

I would hate to divide Atwood’s output into “literary fiction” and “speculative fiction,” and more than that, I would hate to pit these genres against one another. Atwood can do dystopian fiction very well as The Handmaid’s Tale demonstrates rather profoundly even to this day. But her recent turn toward dystopian fiction loses the gallows humor, the engagement with issues of gender and sexuality, and the poetic inventiveness of her other work. Instead of using poetry to convey loss and grief as in Surfacing, Atwood’s linguistic turn in the newer dystopian fiction tends to be more toward inventing catchy phrases for consumer goods, characters, or grids on a map than the brutally powerful knack she had for mixing poetic and fictional prose in other work, such as Cat’s Eye.

I’m Starved for You berates the community of Consilience/Positron for being gimmicky and playing into anxieties and paranoias, but this entire book—in all its short 60 pages—feels like a part of that gimmick. The text is fractured and verbose more on the underlying social chaos that caused Consilience to become a marketable community for the future than on the psychological states of the characters themselves. In other work, Atwood uses her characters fragmented and chaotic states of mind to critique society; here, when this would serve her well, her focus is instead on the machinations of daily life in Consilience and/or Positron, making this novella very superficial and hardly worth the read.

I will continue to read Atwood’s books as she publishes them; having long been a fan of her work, I still cling to the hope that she will produce another gem like The Blind Assassin. While all of her work undoubtedly maintains a dialogue with current social, cultural, and political issues with which we are all dealing in today’s world, it does so lately only with a very clinical eye, forgetting the depths she explored so realistically and horrifyingly in the past.(less)

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Mar 22, 2012 Bookphile rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: dystopian, 2012, kindle-single

Not sure how I feel about this. Will need to marinate on it a bit.

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Having recently read The Handmaid's Tale, I was very intrigued when I saw this on the Kindle Singles list. Though I've owned a Kindle for some time, I'd yet to try a Single, so what better than one by the author of the phenomenal Handmaid's Tale? Unfortunately, this story doesn't live up to its predecessor. Spoilers to follow.

I really loved the initial concept of this book. The way Atwood frames it, it seems like the p...more

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Mar 21, 2012 Friederike Knabe rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: canadian-lit

Not having read any of Margaret Atwood's "near future" novels, I was intrigued to read this short novella on a dystopian (or maybe not?) version of our future. It is funny, tongue-in-cheek, despite its serious theme: lack of paid work for too many on the one hand, and too many criminals running lose as prisons are overflowing on the other. What is the solution? Some authority comes up with a voluntary program, called "consilience" - CON + RESILIENCE.

Not to give anything away, suffice to say that...more

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Mar 18, 2012 J. J. rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: my-ebooks, foreign

I've never read a pulp romance, but I imagine Atwood was going for that style in a few passages of this short story. I quite liked it, to be honest. Otherwise, another solid distopian world, described so well in so few words.

I was disappointed with the end at first, but then I reread the last few pages a couple of times and actually appreciated the way she decided to close things. Most authors would be tempted to drag out the concept to the point boredom. This story kept me interested throughout...more

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Mar 08, 2012 Carolyn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Future dystopia as only Margaret Atwood can imagine it. Voluntary participation in an experimental solution to social problems (over-crowded jails and 40% unemployment) bring two couples "together" with unexpected consequences. Quite intriguing and a good read but somehow unsatisfying at the end.

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Aug 21, 2012 Tammy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: dystopian-future, lendable-kindle

Atwood at her best doing what she does the best, stark and slightly twisted dystopian future.

If you like this, read Oryx and Krake.

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Mar 18, 2012 Jane_doh rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction-scifi

And in 79 pages, Atwood did for me what 1Q84 didn't in 1000. Atwood created a compelling view of a world with characters that were solid and real. It's a 20 minute read. Do it. You won't regret it.

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Nov 14, 2012 Daniel rated it 3 of 5 stars

Holy shit: Margaret Atwood is writing a serialized novel for digital readers! The moment I found this story, it was mine--and the moment I realized that not one, but two installments are available, I was dancing. Fuck yeah I'm on board for an Atwood serial.

Why the cussing? I dig this serial idea. The first I learned that Dumas, Dostoyevsky, Dickens, and other authors (who may even have had last names that start with a different letter) wrote their big books in serialized format, I experienced th...more

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Sep 04, 2012 N.M. Martinez rated it 3 of 5 stars

A true Kindle single, this novella can be read in a few hours. It follows themes similar to other Atwood novels. It's about a distopia where we follow the lives of a couple of people in it.

The basic idea behind this society experiment is that people will take turns being prisoners and then being citizens in an effort to create jobs for the people. I was fascinated with this idea. How does this work? Who put it in place? How do people live with it?

We get some answers from the people we follow, bu...more

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Aug 27, 2012 Patrice Caldwell rated it 4 of 5 stars

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This month (March 2012), bestselling author Margaret Atwood released her first Kindle Single titled “I’m Starved for You” through with the digital publishing company Byliner. E-singles, which are digital novellas, have grown in popularity since the launch of Amazon’s Kindle Singles in January 2011. Although less than 30,000 words, “I’m Starved for You,” efficiently tells a gripping story about a married man struggling with his obsessive desire for another man’s wife. From the start

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The e-single, set in the not-so-distant future, takes place in a dystopian community called Consilience. Stan, the protagonist, and his wife Charmaine have agreed to live in Consilience, giving up their free will in exchange for safety and a better life in a sort of Lockean social contract. In this repressive and controlled society, everyone has an assigned Alternate, a person with whom they switch positions with every month. During one month a person inhabits their house and works in the town, and during the next they become the prisoners of the community prison “Positron” with this cycle continuing month after month. The purpose of this: to alleviate the problems our society has created, such as high unemployment rates and overflowed prisons. As explained by Ed, one of the masterminds behind Consilience’s creation, “You can’t eat your so-called individual liberties, and the human spirit pays no bills, and something had to be done to relieve the pressure inside the social pressure cooker.”

“I’m Starved for You” is characteristic of Atwood’s captivating writing style, including flashback scenes and an open-ending reminiscent of her international bestseller “The Handmaid’s Tale.” “I’m Starved for You” has all the right plot combinations; it makes the reader reevaluate the things that society considers important, leading the reader to realize that no society can be truly perfect. This along with its short length makes it a great read for people, especially college students, who love a good read and yet do not have the time to read a full length novel.

However, this e-single lacks a neatly tied up ending, something that is rarely found in Atwood novels. Furthermore, the short length of this novel has its drawbacks. There is not enough time for further character development; the story seems to end just as the reader begins to connect with and learn more about the characters. There are many questions that are left unanswered, and while it is good to allow room for further conversations, too much speculation can result in a very confused reader.

In a press release, Atwood stated, “The inspiration for ‘I’m Starved for You’ is, as usual with my ‘speculative fictions,’ real life. This is a story that imagines what might happen if certain present-day trends continue.” And imagines it does, creating a world that is utterly dystopian and set up for failure. “I’m Starved for You” proves that e-singles, which can be often read in one sitting, may just be the new wave of digital short-literature our technological and fad-obsessed society needs.

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Jul 09, 2012 Lena added it

loved it loved it loved it. Did I mention I loved this book? Novella? I chose it because it was a bargain on Kindle and I had never read anything by Margaret Atwood , despite her numerous accolades so I wanted to sample her writing before I delve into any of her longner ouevres.

The book is about a gated community that is built in response to mass violence and joblessness, a fsetting that is eerily similar to one I've often imagined given the current state of affairs in America and abroad. I don...more

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Apr 25, 2012 Ed rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, 4-stars, dystopia, kindle-single, read-on-kindle, short-stories, shared-in-household, part-of-a-series

Having read The Handmaid's Tale eons ago, I have been meaning to get back to some Margaret Atwood, but those of us who have mile-high to-be-read lists know how that goes, so I was pleased when I saw this Kindle single/short story available to either encourage or discourage me from seeking more Atwood out.

Not that I was ever expecting the latter, but this short story was something I wish had been blown out into a full novel. It is the story of Stan and Charmaine, a seemingly happy couple living i...more

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Oct 31, 2012 Alice rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, dystopian, literary, science-fiction

This is the first of Margaret Atwood's Positron series, a Kindle Singles release available exclusively for Kindle users. I'd gone in with the assumption it was a stand-alone story, but I was happily mistaken. Happily, because I'd love to know what happens next, and I'm not ready to say goodbye to these characters yet.

The story is through the perspectives of Stan and Charmaine, a married couple who's chosen to go to prison for economic viability. A company has set up a program, called Consilience...more This is the first of Margaret Atwood's Positron series, a Kindle Singles release available exclusively for Kindle users. I'd gone in with the assumption it was a stand-alone story, but I was happily mistaken. Happily, because I'd love to know what happens next, and I'm not ready to say goodbye to these characters yet.

The story is through the perspectives of Stan and Charmaine, a married couple who's chosen to go to prison for economic viability. A company has set up a program, called Consilience, where one lives and works in the prison for a month, then lives outside it for another month. One may well be working for slave wages and under constant surveillance, but there are three decent meals a day, a roof over one's head, and the trappings of surburbia for six months out of the year.

Despite their strict monitoring (or perhaps because of it), Charmaine begins an affair, conducted in the fuzzy times between her suburban life and her return to prison. Stan finds a note she dropped for her lover, and mistakenly assumes the man's wife left it. He fantasizes about a woman so passionate, while going through the motions with a wife he believes too innocent for such things.

The story is told in present tense, which works so well that I kept forgetting. It's not because of a sense of immediacy, though; the story takes place over the course of several months. Rather, it's the characters' living from one moment to the next, compartmentalizing, so that present tense seems the only way they'd process their lives.

The characters were excellent. Stan and Charmaine appear boring, even to one another, but they have a lot going on. Charmaine seems the least sympathetic, considering she's having an affair, and her job involves a certain kind of moral fiber, but I found her fascinating, instead. Stan is doing his best to appear the upright citizen, even fussing about the terrible care the other guy who shares his house takes of the lawn equipment, but his steps to meet "Jasmine" are sneaky and underhanded. It never crosses his mind, what's really going on under his nose, and I found his innocence almost charming.

I had no trouble believing that these characters would choose the life they did. It actually sounded like a good deal, even compared to today's economic uncertainty. The world I'm Starved for You is set in is even worse than ours, with rampant crime and housing conditions in terrible shape. It seems like it might be the same world as Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, because there's a reference to headless chickens engineered to feel less pain, which could serve as a precursor to Chickie Nobs. The facility also seems like a precursor to the compounds in which Jimmy and Glenn grew up.

What I like best about this story is that, though it's a science fiction dystopia, it's not about the setting. Rather, it's a human story that's highlighted by the setting, and that calls attention to a lot of modern problems.

The story is wrapped up at the end, but it leaves more questions and an upping of the stakes. I already picked up Choke Collar, but there's no release date yet for Moppet Shop, so I may hold off on reading it until I can get through the whole series at once.(less)

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Oct 06, 2012 Madomo rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: utopia-dystopia

This is the first episode of the Positron serial. The premiss is interesting. The story is engaging. And the writing, although not the best Atwood I have read, is true to her style and as always moves steadily along and keeps you involved.

This Kindle Single is really a longish short story, and I expect that future installments will bring out deeper and more complex threads in the fabric of the larger story.

As with most contemporary utopian/dystopian fiction the setting is more than just an ima...more

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Jun 25, 2012 Susan Rukeyser rated it 5 of 5 stars

In this Kindle single, Atwood delivers a deft, dystopian glimpse of a future in which people join Consilience, a social experiment requiring them to share lives with Alternates.

In alternating months they trade places in prison and on the outside. The motto of Consilience, a completely self-reliant compound, is “Do time now, buy time for our future.” In theory it’s an ideal solution to a bevy of problems, from unemployment to crime. In reality it’s a voluntary hand-over of control to immoral lead...more

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Nov 03, 2012 Julie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: speculative-fiction, canadian-lit

This was a very short and fast little read, but it was still somewhat gripping, and I'm itching to read the next instalment It's your basic dystopian, so of course there will be far more than meets the eye to this happy little society and the author has already hinted at some little twist to come. I'm sure this dystopian will be similar to others she's written, and some crazy twist will be revealed, that will give you more questions than answers, and have me reading on to the next instalment in...more

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Feb 02, 2013 Katie rated it 2 of 5 stars

I have heard such glowing hinge about Atwood's writing and yet I've never read any. So when I saw this short ebook series, I figured it would be the perfect intro.

Well. If this is what the rest of her stuff is like, I'm not missing out. I guess the idea is that by the end of this " chapter" I'd have been sucked into the plot and form over another 99 cents for the next installment. Instead, by the end I was bored, annoyed, and trying to figure out what all the Atwood hype is about. I found the wr...more

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Nov 20, 2012 Trudi rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: dystopia, science-fiction, oh-canada, 2012-reads, love-the-premise, on-my-kobo

Ah Ms. Atwood. We meet again. You and I haven't been getting along so well of late. The Blind Assassin? Oryx and Crake? I tried to love them but it was not meant to be. But here we are. At last you've given me a tantalizing premise that I just can't walk away from. A dark future? Yes please. A sinister dystopian landscape dressed in idealistic utopian clothing? Tell me more!

To sweeten the deal a little further, this is the first installment of a bona fide serial experiment on Atwood's part. The...more

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May 21, 2012 Philip rated it 2 of 5 stars

I'm a Canadian and I am somewhat embarrassed to admit that, before the Ford Brothers outburst that they didn't know who Margaret Atwood was, I had never read any of her works. I did, however, in contrast to the Ford Brothers, know who she was and was fully aware of her accomplishments and awards. So I thought I'd better try an Atwood novel and I read "Oryx And Crake". Much to my surprise I discovered she wrote Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Dystopian fiction rather than the Romance stuff that I had surmised! Wh...more

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Mar 14, 2012 Meghan Doidge rated it 4 of 5 stars

I always love some Atwood. I need to think about the ending of this book for a bit ... But I enjoyed the read!

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Apr 09, 2012 James rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, i-own-a-copy, 3-stars, read-in-2012, read-in-teenties, short-story, ebook, reviewed, positron-series

Short stories are always at risk of sacrificing characterisation and actual story in order to meet the needs of the format, and to explain the idea within the word count allowed. Unfortunately, as is often the case, this seems to have happened here too.

Which is a shame, as the premise of the story is very well thought out. As populations increase and available work and housing decreases why not split the population in two and house one half of the population while employing them to guard the oth...more

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Mar 11, 2012 Maryellen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: kindle-single, kindle-read, meh

I wanted this to be so much more than it was. Three stars for world building, not much else.

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Mar 19, 2012 Glucose Johnny rated it 3 of 5 stars

Orwell's 1984 is the classic dystopian text.

I like to argue that Huxley's Brave New World is superior, both in its vision and style.

Levin's This Perfect Day belongs on that list, as does James' Children of Men.

Hell, Atwood's Handmaid's Tale could be place right along side those volumes, and one would find no quarrel with me.

However, Atwood's newest, I'm Starved for You, fails to reach the pinnacles set by these memorable and innovative works.

Ms. Atwood has created a dystopian vision of the near-...more

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Apr 12, 2012 Alice rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: dystopia-postapocalyptic

I was very disappointed in this short story. While Atwood remains a favorite author of mine, as she gets further and further away from what I loved about her books and more into these five-minutes-from-now dystopias, I am a bit disillusioned. I've complained before that I think she gets away with sloppy world-building because her work is mostly read by people who don't read sci-fi. This novella has a good premise, but so much of the book is about run-of-the-mill sexual obsession that it gets a b...more

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Aug 19, 2012 Mark Wilkerson rated it 4 of 5 stars

The best short stories are those that place you into a setting and a situation that you learn to care about, and they must do it quickly. Margaret Atwood does this wonderfully in this novella, one that could easily have been made into an intriguing novel. The premise is promising, the climax fulfilling. This story explores social control, and the possibly biggest threat to complete control over a human population: jealousy and the promise of sexual gratification. Atwood, no stranger at all to th...more

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Apr 29, 2012 Molly rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: kindle, speculative-fiction, recommended, literary-fiction, kindle-single, 4-and-a-half-stars, read-in-2012

No one does dystopia like Atwood. I've never been one to buy (or even look at) Kindle singles, since I'm not a huge fan of short stories/novellas, but once I saw this one it took me approximately 3 seconds to decide I must purchase it. I plowed through it in one sitting with no regrets.

...more No one does dystopia like Atwood. I've never been one to buy (or even look at) Kindle singles, since I'm not a huge fan of short stories/novellas, but once I saw this one it took me approximately 3 seconds to decide I must purchase it. I plowed through it in one sitting with no regrets.

Having read a great deal of terrible "hopping on the The Hunger Games bandwagon" YA recently, I was incredibly relieved to see that I don't actually have dystopia fatigue. I have bad dystopia fatigue. When done properly, the genre can still feel new and fresh and not at all derivative. While I still wish Atwood would hurry up and write the final book of the Oryx and Crake trilogy, this was a nice way to spend an afternoon. Atwood proves that you don't need clunky exposition or pages and pages of backstory in order to make a dystopia work. In (probably) less than 100 pages, she creates a completely believable world, in which people live in "shifts." They spend one month living in a normal house with their spouse, and one month working in what is essentially a prison while their alternates take over the house. This is all an experiment and so far it appears to be working. Until one day Stan finds a folded up note under the refrigerator reading "I'm starved for you," which sets his mind spinning. He creates an entire fantasy about the Alternates who live in the house while he and his wife are inside the prison, and we spend much of the story in his head as he lives out various fantasies.

The world-building here is quick (established through Stan's memories of joining the experiment, called Consilience) but no less powerful. It could very well take place in the same world as Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, just in a different location. The characters in both novels mention societies living in protected areas...Consilience could very well be one of them. Or maybe I just want it to be because I'm still hoping for one last volume in that series! Anyway, this isn't so much a true dystopia as a piece of speculative fiction. This is something could conceivably happen, but hasn't yet. But we have all of the technology for it to come to pass in the not-so-distant future. Stan and co, however, are still living in the utopian part of the experiment. It hasn't yet progressed to the level of dystopia, since nothing has gone wrong. Yet.

I'm obviously a total Atwood fangirl, and I will read pretty much anything she writes, but this to me was the ultimate showcase of her narrative prowess. She is able to create a whole world in far less space than a traditional novel (this is true of her poetry as well, which is equally beautiful). She has a gift.

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Mar 31, 2012 Erin rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: march-read-challenge

Hmmm…well, this was definitely an interesting read. The concept was definitely unique, if not truly bizarre. To be honest, though, the POV of Stan just kind of creeped me out. I get that he’s supposed to be kind of rebelling from his straight-laced, monitored lifestyle, but his obsession with “Jasmine” is just downright date rapist-worthy. And the diatribes about society and job shortages got to be a bit much for me. I know there was a point being made, but I don’t read books to feel like I’m li...more

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Jun 05, 2012 Sandy Cox rated it 5 of 5 stars

I know it’s been a bit since I’ve written a review, but I just read a really great short story by Margaret Atwood that wanted to share.

Picture a society where everything looks like Main Street at Disney World, but on the first day of every month the residents trade places with inmates from the local prison, who then become the residents of the community.

As he’s returning to the prison, Stan discovers explicit note, from Jasmine to Max, his home’s other residents. Soon thoughts of his wife, Cha...more

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Sep 01, 2012 Isaac Katzanek rated it 3 of 5 stars

There are traces of A Handmaid's Tale in this, though I wonder how much the story is served by the shortened form. Perhaps appropriately, I found myself wanting more out of the story, and more out of the world that Atwood creates. I'm a sucker for dystopian tales, and to be able to finish one in an hour and a half could not satisfy my appetite. There's no reason that this story should've ended where it did. Now having said that, I'll admit that Atwood's ability to create a world in such a limite...more

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I'm Starved for You (Positron #1)

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