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In recent weeks, the red dresses and white bonnets worn by women in Margaret Atwood’s bleak futuristic novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” have been popping up everywhere. They were seen on women walking in rows of two at South by Southwest, in television commercials for a forthcoming Hulu series based on the book, and even on protesters sitting in the Texas Senate last week.

The novel has surged in sales since the election of Donald Trump as president and since the Hulu series was announced. A special edition of “The Handmaid’s Tale” on audio book, featuring new material written by Atwood (including an elaboration on the ending) is currently available for preorder on Audible and will be released on April 4. The book is currently No. 5 on Amazon.com’s AMZN, +0.05% fiction best seller list. The book is not the only dystopian novel that has seen a huge increase in sales, along with others about the death of democracy, including Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and George Orwell’s “1984” (which is currently just behind Atwood’s novel at No. 8 on Amazon) following the election.

“We are in an age of yet more autocratic regimes, thought police, double-speak, and fake news — all things Orwell wrote about. When you have total control of the news system you can really have fake news.”

–Margaret Atwood, author of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’