Speculative Fiction That Could Actually Happen

Margaret Atwood refuses to call her book science fiction because it contains nothing humans cannot already do. She defines this chilling vision of the future as speculative fiction based entirely on existing human capability.

The story follows a lone survivor navigating a world reshaped by reckless genetic engineering and corporate greed. By grounding her plot in real science rather than futuristic fantasy, Atwood forces us to question how close we are to such a collapse. It is a cautionary tale about what happens when pharmaceutical giants play god with our biology. Exploring this path, the book feels less like a distant fable and more like a terrifyingly plausible tomorrow.