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In Other Worlds - SF and the Human Imagination

✍ Scribed by Atwood, Margaret

Book ID
106989186
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2011
Tongue
en-ca
Weight
626 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780385533973

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✦ Synopsis

In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination is Margaret Atwood's account of her rela­tionship with the literary form we have come to know as science fiction. This relationship has been lifelong, stretch­ing from her days as a child reader in the 1940s through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she explored the Victorian ancestors of the form, and continuing with her work as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures of 2010--"Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian other-lands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investi­gates utopias and dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and musings about the form, including her elucidation of the differences (as she...

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