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>>apolli+(OP)
I'm still flabbergasted that she and others seriously proclaimed Trump's election would bring about the scenario of the handmaids tale. I guess she should be excused for being ridiculous because of her old age, but I've lost all interest in her work.

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>>pksdjf+cJ3
Where did she say that?

>>astura+a84
I learned about it from her Twitter account, not sure if she talked about it elsewhere.

Edit: it is also right on top of the article - "her long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, was released, and she became something else entirely: a worldwide cultural phenomenon. The novel, set in a not-so-distant United States where fundamentalist fascists have gained power and stripped away women’s rights"

(Although I was referring to her comments before the release of the new book, but the new book confirms it).

>>pksdjf+p76
I think you just misunderstand the sentence. It describes the setting of the novel.

>>goto11+rR7
Yes I know that, but it confirms that it is now a realistic scenario for her. But as I said, my information was from her comments on "Handmaids Tale" demonstrations she made on Twitter, which she made before publishing the novel.

>>pksdjf+U49
I think you are fundamentally misunderstanding the meaning and purpose of speculative fiction.

>>goto11+Rra
Again - I was referring to her tweets, commenting on the real US. Not her fiction.

There were demonstrations inspired by her fiction. In the real world. She commented on those.

Since then she has released a whole book about the US becoming a handmaid's tale world. That book is fiction. Here Twitter comments before that were not. They refer to the real world.

>>pksdjf+Srg
So it is just the (alleged) twitter comment which you consider political flamebait?