Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Piercy is an avid gardener. That's probably why her utopian future at Mattapoisett has a lot of gardening (source).
Piercy has four cats. Her memoir is called Sleeping With Cats. She thinks our feline friends are purrfect (sorry). That's probably why her utopian future has talking cats (source).
Piercy's dystopic vision of a world in which the rich live forever and the poor die young? Looks like it might actually come about sometime soon (source).