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She do get a lot of press, may be perhaps that is so because she is tune with the political fads of the time, rather than anything else. But shorn of their topicality, does her work has lasting value?

Even considering women writers writing in English only, she'd be considerably behind writers like Marilynne Robinson, Donna Tart, A.S Byatt or Arundhati Roy in the accomplishment of her work.

>>billfr+(OP)
Considering that The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, I’d say her work has lasting value.

>>billfr+(OP)
>does her work [have] any lasting value?

'Oryx and Crake' and 'Handmaids Tale' are some of the most vivid and impactful speculative fiction that I have ever read. Margaret Atwood will forever go down in history for both the prose and scope of her literature.