Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, and critic whose work blends fiction, feminism, ecology, and political satire. She prefers the term “speculative fiction,” emphasizing that her inventions  are extrapolations of existing technologies and social trends. Atwood’s fiction often features archivists, witnesses, and survivors — characters who record or reinterpret the collapse of social orders. Recurring themes: power, surveillance, reproductive rights, environmental destruction, mythmaking, and the blurred line between utopia and dystopia. Atwood is also an inventor and activist, engaging with climate issues, civil liberties, and the politics of storytelling itself.