![]() ![]() Right here, right now, without even having seen a galley or anything much more than a cover (and what a cover), I’m calling it: The Testaments is cli-fi.Īs some critics have observed, we’re rapidly approaching a point at which any work of fiction set in the contemporary world, much less an imagined future Earth, will de facto be climate change fiction, regardless of what the plot might actually be about. ![]() But an educated Atwood reader (or, ahem, superfan) doesn’t have to read between too many lines to guess what her next work will comment on. We don’t know yet what The Testaments is about, or what new insight it may give into the workings or inhabitants of Gilead, Atwood’s name for a fictional future America created by systematically stripping women of their property and rights. When The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s hotly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, hits bookstores in the fall of 2019, the average global temperature will have risen at least one full degree from what it was in 1985, when Atwood’s original apocalyptic tale appeared. ![]()
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