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The Handmaid's Tale
Author	Margaret Atwood
Publisher	McClelland and Stewart
Publication Date	1985
Country	Canada
Genre(s)	Dystopia, Science fiction
ISBN	ISBN 0-7710-0813-9
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The Handmaid's Tale is a science fiction novel written by Margaret Atwood. The novel inspired a 1990 film of the same name starring Natasha Richardson and Faye Dunaway.

The plot of the novel includes a near future United States ruled by a an ultra right-wing religious government. Also an affliction strikes humanity where only a small percentage of the female population is fertile.