For one reason or another, The Windup Girl won a Nebula and a Hugo. One would assume the book is 'notable' even by Wikipedia standards.
It's not even like The Windup Girl flew beneath everyone's radar and Aidan's declaring "ZOMG Y U NO REED TIHS!!!" As it's been stated elsewhere this is just a slashvert.
Oryx and Crake has more rape fulfilling Atwood's sick dystopian fantasies.
Also Atwood doesn't write science fiction. You won't find any squids or rocketships in Oryx and Crake. Squids and rocketships are mainstays of science fiction like busty women being eaten by squids aboard a superluminal rocketship.
The Windup Girl came out in September 2009 and now you're getting around to reviewing it?
Let me tell ya, there's an awesome book by this guy named Bob Heinlein. He named it "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and I heard it's pretty good. I'd better get cracking on that review before it's too late!
Krishna sucks cock and Ganesh's asshole smells like day-old curry!
Try getting all Ghandi on my candy-ass, you cock smoking teabaggers!
I bet you don't watch television and make sure everyone knows about it too.
Red stars are cool stars. Since they're red they work at longer wavelengths. Less light is reflected by potential water/ice/snow on the planet surface and kept as heat. Habitable zones of red stars is much larger than other types of stars.
It's elves, dwarves and fucking wizards from a bedtime story for children.
Who is expecting Faulkner let alone G.K. Chesterton? Popularity and longevity is award enough for Tolkein.
If only Google took such swift and decisive action on everyone who has a pony avatar.
More like nine years, son.
Hempstone's Question: If you have to travel on the Titanic, why not go first class?