Relationship with a computer.

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One interesting feature of both "A Handmaid's Tale" and "The Stepford Wives" is that, while being clearly and unambiguously distopian from a woman's point of view, they represent distopian Utopias for men. The husband in the Stepford Wives is unhappy that his wife is going to stop being herself and start being this Barby doll, he's torn between conforming with the society he's moved into by turning his wife into a robot and keeping the real person his wife is. In the Handmaid's tale the fascist leader she's handmaid to also represents this contradiction. He wants a normal relationship, but the society he's had a hand in creating and his role in it prevents him from having a normal relationship with either his wife or the handmaid.

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Obviously a tale from a psychotic woman. 😏

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As a sci fi fan and a Dean Koontz fan, I read this book (the original 1973 version, not the watered-down 1997 rewrite) and was utterly horrified.

Never had the guts to see the film.

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I may take a look at this.

I've been on this dystopian kick with sci fi recently (The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner, etc.) so this seems right up that alley.

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So it is science fiction, I thought it must be some kind of fiction. 😏

Originally posted by OdBod
No, but I got the general idea of it and from HAL in 2001 and other sources. There have been lots of films/literature on the subject, I'm just wondering where it might lead us.

Instead of deep human relationships, we will go with the shallow inhuman
kind because it feels nice I guess.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that you believe this contradicts what I said. I, on the other hand, believe it only confirms it. Do you know what le vice Anglais is?

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Not at all; it would, inevitably, not be his sect of fundamentalist Jehovaism, and therefore be equally anathema to him as real Christianity is.

For her novel, Margaret Atwood has won the Governor General's Award (for Canadian literature) and the Arthur C. Clarke Award (for science fiction). The novel has been adapted for the radio, stage, screen, and even opera.

Mind you, that in itself says nothing about its quality. Bryan Adams (bucket, please) won the GG Award; Stephen Baxter, a war-enthusing hack if ever there was one, was repeatedly nominated for the ACC; and Jerry Springer was made into an opera. Which isn't to say that Atwood isn't good; just that her winning those awards doesn't indicate whether she is or isn't.

Originally posted by RJHinds
So it is science fiction, I thought it must be some kind of fiction. 😏

There is much that is serious going on in most science fiction.