About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Feminist science fiction novels, The Handmaid's Tale, Tank Girl, Starstruck, The Left Hand of Darkness, Nights at the Circus, The Female Man, The Mists of Avalon, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, Angel Island, Laadan, Herland, Kindred, He, She and It, The Eye of the Heron, Houston, Houston, Do You Read?, Woman on the Edge of Time, The Gate to Women's Country, The Passion of New Eve, Swastika Night, The Alchemy of Stone, Wiscon, Unveiling a Parallel, Native Tongue, Parable of the Sower, We Who Are About To..., Millennial Women, A Door into Ocean, Memoirs of a Spacewoman, Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson, Ammonite, The Two of Them, And Chaos Died, Sultana's Dream, Chroniques du Pays des Meres, A Woman's Liberation, When It Changed, Janus, The Holdfast Chronicles, The Witch and the Chameleon, Trouble and Her Friends, Le Silence de la Cite. Excerpt: The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel, a work of science fiction or speculative fiction, written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. Set in the near future, in a totalitarian theocracy which has overthrown the United States government, The Handmaid's Tale explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain agency. The novel was inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which is a series of connected stories ("The Merchant's Tale," "The Parson's Tale," etc.). The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987, and it was nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award. It has been adapted for the cinema, radio, opera, and stage. The Handmaid's Tale is set in the near future in the Republic of Gilead, a country formed within the borders of what was formerly the...
