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Tuchman: I remember when we first started the writers’ room in Season 1, this was 2016, and I thought, “Oh, we’re adapting this great, classic piece of literature,” which was known as speculative fiction about a dystopia, and we just wanted to tell the best version of that story as a TV show.

Many speculative fiction writers say some version of this whenever people point out disturbing similarities in their shows and movies to current events.

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approach to speculative fiction should outdate itself; our phones, computers and video game consoles are likewise outdated by tech consumers’ hunger for shiny new toys, which the tech industry is too happy to feed.