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If that seems like a change from the feminist speculative fiction of her breakthrough, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Atwood has refused to be pigeonholed.

Whitehead’s sixth novel is the culmination of a career spent both exploring race and indulging a lifelong love of speculative fiction.

Granted, it’s fitting that Brooker’s fearmongering approach to speculative fiction should outdate itself; our phones, computers and video game consoles are likewise outdated by tech consumers’ hunger for shiny new toys, which the tech industry is too happy to feed.

“What’s the function of a galaxy?” the speculative fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin once asked.

Images of the American military deployed in the streets against the American people as part of Trump regime’s coup are not the stuff of speculative fiction or the recent film "Civil War."