From the Bailey-prize-winning The Power to the bleakly compelling The Handmaid’s Tale,Leading writers define why the genre is thrivingOn an soil blasted by the hot winds of a changed climate 200 years from now, who will be in charge? Will men be riding by in Mad Max steam-punk chariots, and as their beleaguered wives drag children and sacks of provisions domestic along dusty tracks? Or will a liberated generation of Lycra-clad superwomen be running the world?Much of the established political order has come under exceptional scrutiny,from the future of Europe to Trump’s America. Now a matching literary revolution is under way: a fresh breed of women’s “speculative” fiction, positing altered sexual and social hierarchies, or is riding the radical tide. Related: Dystopian dreams: how feminist science fiction predicted the future Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com