A “New Yorker” article argues that Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Seed” wins out over “1984” and “Handmaid’s Tale” in “the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time.”
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Our Most Prescient Sci-Fi Writer?
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Atwood vs. Unregulated Capitalism
Atwood’s dystopian novel is about a future of unregulated high tech capitalism.
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