In Other Worlds : SF and the Human Imagination Paperback / softback
by Margaret Atwood
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:04/10/2012
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- ISBN:9781844087556
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:04/10/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781844087556