margaretEatwood

Yes, unfortunately. Or some version of them. You might not get the red outfits in Handmaid's Tale, but some similar lows are being enacted in the US right now. The corporatism of Oryx and Crake is already in full swing. The internet is still a quasi-free zone, but only because it has fought off legislative attempts. However, as in Year of the Flood: if you can see it, it can see you. And your ebooks are reading you!

OK I have to stop now, my back is giving out. I'll come back tomorrow and answer unanswered qs! Thanks to all!

Hello -- Finally I found this. Thank you!

Not too difficult any more being female and writing SF and Spec Fic: Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler... used to be, but some still did it.

It's having fun. "Parody," I'd say. It's been done as long as we've had literature.

Just found this.. Thank you! 1) The Handmaid's Tale was less believed when I published it than it is now. People thought I was being alarmist. It's not the first time in history that things have swung back and forth like this... 2) I use things from real life, but transform them -- as fiction does.