Like the work of her mentor, Margaret Atwood, her novels have moved confidently between alternative past, recognisable present and speculative future, but it was the latter, in the form of 2016's The Power, that propelled her to mainstream commercial success.
The Future is a complex novel of ideas slyly hidden inside a satirical dystopian tech-thriller; if its premise is less sharply focused than that of The Power, which asked what happens in a world where men fear violence from women, its central questions are nevertheless a variation on the same theme: what happens when all the power, including the power to survive the end of the world, is concentrated in the hands of a select few?
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