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In Other Worlds
SF and the Human Imagination
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This book is ideal for readers interested in science fiction, literary criticism, and Margaret Atwood's body of work, as well as those curious about genre distinctions and the cultural history of speculative storytelling.
Margaret Atwood's fascinating account of her lifelong relationship with science and speculative fiction.
Margaret Atwood's fascinating account of her lifelong relationship with science and speculative fiction.
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From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction.
Here she brings together three Ellmann lectures: 'Flying Rabbits' begins with her early rabbit superhero creations and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos and Things with Wings; 'Burning Bushes' travels into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and 'Dire Cartographies' investigates Utopias and Dystopias, including Atwood's own ventures into those constructions.
In further essays, Atwood explores and critiques the form and elucidates the differences - as she sees them - between 'science fiction' proper and 'speculative fiction', not to mention 'sword and sorcery', 'fantasy', and 'slipstream fiction.'
In Other Worlds is a must-read.
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Financial Times praises the book as "eminently readable and accessible," noting Atwood's insightful, well-argued lectures with a sharp sense of humour and exceptional intellectual engagement.
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ISBN: 9781844087556
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 October 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 190g
Pages: 272
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About the Author
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and prizes. She lives in Canada.
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