Looking for something as the title suggests – I’ve just finished The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, also enjoyed The Handmaid’s Tale a while back and have more recently enjoyed The Power by Naomi Alderman and The Farm by Joanne Ramos.
I enjoy apocalyptic themes but it doesn’t necessarily need to be end-of-the-world kind of stuff, I suppose more kind of ‘screwed up future’? Hope this kind of makes sense?! Recommendations please!
Edit – dystopian was the word I was looking for! Dystopian stuff please!
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Have you read “Station Eleven” by Emily St John Mendel? It has multiple POV including several important female POVs. More humanist than feminist, but I think you might enjoy it
Octavia Butler – Parable of the Sower
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
Sheri S Tepper
The Gate into Women’s Country is my favorite, I’ve been rereading it every year for about 20 years.
These are also very good
Singer from the Sea, The Fresco, The Companions, Gibbons Decline and Fall
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
* Borne by Jeff VanderMeer. Post apocalyptic sci fi where the female characters are the main movers and shakers of the story
* Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder. This is end-of-the-world feminist Lovecraftian horror.
* The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey. More like The Testaments in that the world is pretty similar to the modern day real one.
* Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase. Screwed up future, not apocalyptic. Very dystopian.
* Slow River by Nicola Griffith. Screwed up future, not apocalyptic. Not quite as dystopian.
* Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. A collection of short fiction.
The Angel Are the Reapers by Alden Bell