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@Like a mad scientist from one of her futuristic novels, Margaret Atwood is an avid tinkerer who seems willing to experiment with © almost any digital technology.//
@She has posted her writing on the free fiction site Wattpad, including some poetry and a zombie novel that she co wrote.// She has published fiction on Twitter, where she has more than 885,000 followers.// She banters with fans on the online message board Reddit and has live streamed footage of herself on the video platform Periscope.// ©A video game app, Intestinal Parasites, was developed as a tie in to her dystopian MaddAddam novels.// She even invented a device called LongPen, which she envisioned as a way for people to sign their names remotely.//
@Her new book, **The Heart Goes Last,** which comes out on Tuesday, grew out of her obsession with new forms of digital narrative.// ©The project began three years ago as an online serial for the e book publisher Byliner, and morphed into a novel.//
@The story unfolds in a grim, futuristic America, where financial collapse has left much of the population unemployed, homeless and scavenging.// A destitute married couple, Stan and Charmaine, are living in their car, dodging roaming bands of criminals and subsisting on dismal meals like stale doughnuts.// ©Their luck seems to turn when they are offered a chance to join a new planned community called Consilience, which promises free housing and jobs.//