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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 WORDS is a must-read.Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139781844087556
eBay Product ID (ePID)117355689
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Publication Year2012
Book TitleIn Other Worlds: Sf and the Human Imagination
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiographies & True Stories
AuthorMargaret Atwood
Dimensions
Item Height196 mm
Item Weight220 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorMargaret Atwood