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'The book appeared in Canada in the fall of 1985 to baffled and sometimes anxious reviews' â¦ the English National Opera production of The Handmaid's Tale, 2003. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Some books haunt the reader. Others haunt the writer. The Handmaid's Tale has done both. The Handmaid's Tale has not been out of print since it was first published, back in 1985. It has sold millions of copies worldwide and has appeared in a bewildering number of translations and editions.
That isn't this book at all. The Handmaid's Tale is speculative fiction in the genre of Brave New World and 1984. 1984 was written not as science fiction but as an extrapolation of life in 1948. So, too, The Handmaid's Tale is a slight twist on the society we have now. Q: You seem to see a role for the novel beyond entertainment.