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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Going To Be A TV Series In 2017
http://www.popsci.com/handmaids-tale-is-coming-to-hulu-in-2017One of our favorite dystopian novels is getting turned into a television series. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, will debut on Hulu sometime in 2017, with Atwood as a consulting producer for the series and Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss as the leading lady.
Written in 1985, The Handmaid's Tale is set in a dystopian future where a fundamentalist government has stripped women of most of their rights. As one of few fertile women left, Offred is a sanctified sex slave, navigating a crazy social hierarchy and searching for her lost daughter. (Hmm, feels like this election season is bringing us closer than ever before to this vision ?)
The novel won the very first Arthur C. Clarke award for science fiction, although Atwood herself classifies it as "speculative fiction." However you classify it, the novel is a great read; the new Hulu series has a lot to live up to.
Written in 1985, The Handmaid's Tale is set in a dystopian future where a fundamentalist government has stripped women of most of their rights. As one of few fertile women left, Offred is a sanctified sex slave, navigating a crazy social hierarchy and searching for her lost daughter. (Hmm, feels like this election season is bringing us closer than ever before to this vision ?)
The novel won the very first Arthur C. Clarke award for science fiction, although Atwood herself classifies it as "speculative fiction." However you classify it, the novel is a great read; the new Hulu series has a lot to live up to.
Or if Cruz wins, a reality show.
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'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Going To Be A TV Series In 2017 (Original Post)
KamaAina
May 2016
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Paladin
(28,290 posts)1. Good. It's more timely now than ever. (nt)
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)2. I guess I'm going to have to stop putting off reading this book. nt
MuseRider
(34,142 posts)4. I am listening to it,
almost done, on Audible. Claire Danes is the reader. I have to say, the movie was awful. Claire Danes is better but there is nothing like reading it yourself. There are so many things that your brain can kinda gloss over when listening, for me anyway.
It is not long and very well worth the read. I also love The Maddaddam Trilogy. Those I liked listening to. She is a good writer, you will be happy (?) you read it.
nruthie
(466 posts)3. Good. We will need a primer to study.