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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

Contributors:

By (Author) Margaret Atwood

ISBN:

9781844087556

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Imprint:

Virago Press Ltd

Publication Date:

4th October 2012

UK Publication Date:

4th October 2012

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Dewey:

809.38762

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

272

Dimensions:

Width 128mm, Height 197mm, Spine 17mm

Weight:

190g

Description

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 WORDS is a must-read.

Reviews

Eminently readable and accessible... The lectures are insightful and cogently argued with a neat comic turn of phrase... Her enthusiasm and level of intellectual engagement are second to none. - Financial Times - James Lovegrove

Author Bio

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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