Future shock

Anyone with the slightest interest in the literary world has surely heard of Margaret Atwood, the Canadian writer who has been projecting bleakly dystopian visions of the near-future for more than four decades. If you have not read any of her 15 novels – like the feminist fable The Handmaid’s Tale, or the climate-crisis Maddaddam trilogy – you might have come across one of her short story collections, or one of her collections ...