Thoughts on Margaret Atwood?

Despite memeing about the Handmaid's Tale, I haven't actually read it. I've read some of her short fiction, and Oryx and Crake.

As mentioned in @tur_keyed's comment, everyone in Oryx and Crake is repulsive and contemptible (a good chunk of the text is about the two protagonists watching child porn as teenagers). It's an interesting take on dystopia mainly because it shows how a society that's bad enough can make it impossible to be a decent person, rendering personal choice basically irrelevant. Lame dystopias usually have at least a few characters who are mysteriously untouched by their social context so you have someone to relate to. O+C is actively unpleasant as a reading experience, but with some literary value. The weird sicko "genius" Crake designing the successors of humanity based on his eclectic barely-human values calls to mind people like Sam Altman, Elon Musk, etc. and other god complex neurodivergents, though O+C imagines a future built on genetic engineering rather than computer technology.