The patent system was introduced to induce inventors to reveal their secrets — but it doesn't compel them. It’s far from perfect, and if you had an unpatentable secret... what fur could he made to...
When the government wields its power against its own people, every citizen becomes an enemy of the state. Will you fight the system, or be ground to dust beneath the boot of tyranny?
In his smash-hit anthologies Wastelands and The Living...
The third novel in this sequence sees the War of the Two Directions between the rulers and the ruled take on a new and brutal intensity. 200 years from now, the Chinese rule our world under an iron authority and Change itself has been...
Beasts describes a world in which genetically engineered animals are given a variety of human characteristics. Painter is a leo, a combination of man and lion. Reynard, a character derived from medieval European fable, is part fox.
Political...
"O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That hath such people in't!"
Miranda's speech in Shakespeare's The...
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.
When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had...