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While I am rooting for authors to make sure they get what they deserve, I feel like there is a bit of a parallel to textbooks here. As an engineer if I learn about statics from a text book and then go use that knowledge to he'll design a bridge that I and my company profit from, the textbook company can't sue. If my textbook has a detailed example for how to build a new bridge across the Tacoma Narrows, and I use all of the same design parameters for a real Tacoma Narrows bridge, that may have much more of a case.
I think that these are fiction writers. The maths you'd use to design that bridge is fact and the book company merely decided how to display facts. They do not own that information, whereas the Handmaid's Tale was the creation of Margaret Atwood and was an original work.