Margaret Atwood has earned the right to a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, even though the Hulu series got there first

The Guardian

"For 35 years, Atwood’s choice to leave Offred’s fate hanging in the balance has been an essential part of the novel’s meaning," says Stephanie Merritt. "Keen-eyed readers may think they spot linguistic clues scattered through the text – that is all part of the game. The power is handed to the reader: you decide, Atwood seems to say. Now, thanks to the TV adaptation, that decision no longer belongs to her readers, and so it is right and proper that Atwood herself gets to assert what really happened next."