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I had read The Handmaid's Tale soon after it came out in 1985, but didn't get to Margaret Atwood's other books until this winter.

Dave Astor: Reading Harry Potter and Other Multi-Volume Works in One Big Gulp Dave Astor 2011

I had read The Handmaid's Tale soon after it came out in 1985, but didn't get to Margaret Atwood's other books until this winter.

Dave Astor: Reading Harry Potter and Other Multi-Volume Works in One Big Gulp Dave Astor 2011

I never find literary authors 'deployment of sf tropes entirely convincing, but of that lot The Handmaid's Tale was the most confident.

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It's a fairly basic sfnal plot, and Atwood does it competently and coherently; not as good a book as he own The Handmaid's Tale (nor as brilliant a treatment of the theme as this), but I found it engaging, if somewhat grim.

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With states enacting a record number of abortion restrictions in the first half of 2011 it seems like a perfect time to reread Margaret Atwood's classic dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale.

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They also address adult subject matter (e.g., censorship in Fahrenheit 451, feminist issues in The Handmaid's Tale, etc.), which further serves to stretch genre beyond its juvenile roots.

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For your next tidbits, you might mention that actress Natasha Richardson was star of the 1990 film adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale, and she also played Mary Shelley once in a movie called Gothic.

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And Atwood -- say what you will about her unfortunate snobbishness -- has a feel for the complexity of human emotion and poetry options of language that is very, very compelling, especially in her non-genre work before The Handmaid's Tale.

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So for readers who have always veered away from SF/F/H but who are open to reconsidering and reassessing their assumptions, I'd point them to George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five.

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With states enacting a record number of abortion restrictions in the first half of 2011 it seems like a perfect time to reread Margaret Atwood's classic dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale.

Barbara Lee: Summer Reading Barbara Lee 2011