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Journal Article
The Fourfold Library (7): Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
2018
Overview
[...]Atwood's focus on the very near future in The Handmaid's Tale has stayed with me throughout my fiction writing to date, and I remain wedded to the idea of science fiction as a form of political writing. Whereas Atwood's novel is labelled as a dystopia, I constructed Dreams Before the Start of Time within familiar, everyday settings to reveal how each generation might navigate their way to starting a family, given that new opportunities will arise thanks to advances in biomechanics and genetic engineering. Will employers oblige their female staff to 'outsource' their pregnancies to gestation clinics and so avoid the disruption of ante-natal and post-natal medical appointments, not to mention the possibility of long-term health issues related to conventional childbirth? I did sense while writing this novel, that the artificial womb will be a game-changer in terms of our future path as a species.
